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Allows for reasonable accommodations for the examination portion of licensure requirements to become a social worker for individuals for whom English is not their primary language and a test in their primary language is not available.
Provides that members of the New York city teachers' retirement system with an active membership at the time, who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations, and who are determined to have incurred a qualifying condition, be paid a duty disability retirement allowance equal to three-quarters of final average salary.
This bill establishes strict time limits for defendants adding new parties to lawsuits (called "third-party complaints"). It requires defendants to file such claims within 60 days of answering the original lawsuit, with deadlines shrinking to 20 days for subsequent parties added in chain reactions. The law provides an exception for workers' compensation cases involving serious injuries, allowing up to 120 days to file if the employer's identity wasn't known earlier. It prohibits adding new parties after a "note of issue" is filed and bans consolidating severed third-party cases.
Enacts the "fair pay for home care act" relating to minimum wages applicable to home care aides; provides for a minimum wage of 150% of the applicable statewide or regional minimum wage.
Requires health insurance for state officers and employees who receive health insurance benefits from the state to take effect immediately upon employment.
Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for employees of the New York Power Authority who are a member of the public employee organization certified or recognized to represent employees of such authority.
Relates to the statute of limitations for actions based on discriminatory practices in employment; establishes action must be commenced within six years.
S 8511 allows employers hiring volunteer or paid firefighters to conduct background checks on job applicants. The bill requires employers to provide applicants with copies of any background records obtained and give them a chance to explain the results. This directly affects firefighters applying for positions with fire departments across New York. The law adds a specific provision to criminal procedure law, ensuring transparency in the background check process for this workforce. It does not change existing background check rules for other professions.
Relates to access to educational activities by public assistance recipients who are subject to work participation requirements; allows homework expected or required by an educational institution to count towards satisfaction of the work activity requirements for public assistance benefits for participants engaged in certain educational or training activities.
Provides that the tax levy limit shall not include a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from a local government meeting its obligation to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters as required under section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law.
