S 2503: Requires paid family leave benefits for public employees not represented by an employee organization.
The proposed law aims to provide paid family leave benefits to public employees. The law allows public employers to opt-in to paid family leave benefits for employees represented by a certified or recognized employee organization, as well as for employees not represented by an organization. Public employers can opt-in within a specified time frame, and the benefits will be provided according to the existing provisions of the law. Employees represented by an organization can opt-out of the benefits if mutually agreed upon with the employer. Public employers who opt-in to paid family leave benefits for employees not represented by an organization must provide the benefits with at least 90 days' notice. The law will take effect 108 days after it becomes a law.
| Jan. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO LABOR |
| Jan. 21, 2025 | REFERRED TO LABOR |
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2503 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to paid fami- ly leave for public employees not represented by an employee organiza- tion The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 212-b of the workers' compensation 2 law, as added by section 14 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 3 2016, is amended to read as follows: 4 3. (a) An employee organization may, pursuant to collective bargain- 5 ing, opt in to paid family leave benefits on behalf of those public 6 employees it is either certified or recognized to represent, within the 7 meaning of article fourteen of the civil service law. Nothing in this 8 section shall prohibit an agreement to opt in to paid family leave 9 between the employee organization and any public employer. An employee 10 organization that has opted in to paid family leave benefits may, pursu- 11 ant to collective bargaining, opt out of it as is mutually agreed upon 12 between the employee organization and any public employer. 13 [b.] (b) For public employees who are not represented by an employee 14 organization, the public employer [may opt-in to paid family leave bene-15fits within ninety days notice to such public employees. Following opt-16in by a public employer for public employees not represented by an17employee organization, the public employer may opt-out of paid family18leave benefits with twelve months notice to those public employees] 19 shall provide paid family leave benefits in accordance with the 20 provisions of section two hundred four and two hundred eight of this 21 article. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 23 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06572-01-5