What's happening
This bill provides additional disability benefits to New York City Transit Authority employees injured by assault while on the job.
Why it matters
Enhances financial support for assaulted employees. By providing an extra disability benefit (equal to half of the weekly workers' compensation payment), the bill aims to lessen the financial stress on transit workers hurt in attacks, recognizing the unique risks their jobs entail.
Covers all NYC Transit Authority staff and subsidiaries. The expanded benefit applies not just to core NYCTA employees but also to workers in subsidiary corporations, broadening protection to a larger segment of the city’s transit workforce.
Ensures benefits are supplemental, not offsets. The legislation explicitly states that this new disability payment will not reduce or replace any other compensation or contractual benefits, ensuring injured employees receive the full range of support.
Provides ongoing support during recovery. Payments continue bi-weekly for as long as the employee receives workers' compensation for the same injury, helping to ensure sustained financial stability throughout the duration of the disability.
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Who cares
New York City Transit Authority employees
Employees injured in workplace assaults after the bill takes effect who qualify for workers’ compensation would receive an additional disability benefit equal to half their weekly workers’ compensation payment, excluding schedule awards.
Employees of transit authority subsidiaries
Workers at subsidiaries, including the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Operating Authority, would receive the same additional benefit without reductions to other payments they are entitled to receive.
New York City Transit Authority and its subsidiaries
These employers would have to pay the additional benefit biweekly for as long as an eligible employee receives workers’ compensation payments for the same disability.
Headline styles
Extra Benefits for Assaulted Transit Workers
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Sponsors
17 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2202
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER, BLAKE, RODRIGUEZ, COLTON, CRESPO, PICHAR- DO, D'URSO, HYNDMAN, FERNANDEZ, DICKENS, ARROYO, ORTIZ, BARRON, SIMON, COOK, GOTTFRIED, RIVERA, BICHOTTE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to providing a disability benefit for employees of the New York city transit authority and its subsidiary corporations who are disabled by reason of an assault sustained in the course of employment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 1210-b to read as follows:
§ 1210-b. Disability benefit for employees. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
a. "Authority" shall mean the New York city transit authority and any of its subsidiary corporations, including the Manhattan and Bronx surface operating authority.
b. "Employee" shall mean any officer or employee of the authority.
2. Any employee of the authority who, after the effective date of this section, sustains an injury for which he or she is determined to be eligible for workers' compensation benefits as a result of an assault sustained in the course of his or her employment shall be entitled, in addition to any workers' compensation payment and any other benefit received by the employee owing to such disability whether pursuant to law or contract, to a disability benefit payment equal to one-half of the weekly workers' compensation payment, excluding schedule awards that the employee receives for the same disability. Such disability payment shall be made by the authority bi-weekly and shall continue for so long as the employee receives a workers' compensation payment for the same disability. The benefits provided for in this section shall not be deemed to offset or reduce any other payment to which the employee is otherwise entitled.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00272-01-9
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