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State officials believe roughly 90,000 out-of-work New Yorkers may have missed a critical step needed for them to receive unemployment benefits. The state Department of Labor, flooded with ...
In 2020, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law reducing the waiting period for striking employees to receive unemployment benefits from seven weeks to two weeks. Story continues below photo ...
The New York Unemployment Insurance Law, enacted in 1935 and codified at Article 18 of the Labor Law, implements unemployment insurance within New York. As with most states, the maximum period for receiving benefits is 26 full weeks during a one-year period (benefit year). [4]
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
The number of people who applied for first-time unemployment benefits fell by 12,000 to 216,000 for the week ending October 26, according to Department of Labor data released Thursday morning.
When workers miss work, (especially in jobs in which one's workload would require to be substituted for the day, such as teachers, cashiers, servers, etc.), it is generally expected by employers that workers call in advance to inform of their absence so that their position can be substituted by other workers.
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The Unemployment Action Center, sometimes abbreviated as UAC, is a non-profit organization run by students of nine law schools in the New York City area. The purpose of UAC is to provide free legal representation to people who were denied unemployment benefits by the New York State Department of Labor, or against appeals by employers from an initial determination granting unemployment insurance.