NY Lab L § 581-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law Title 6 - Contributions to Fund 581-A - Rates of Contributions to Fund in Emergency.

§   581-a.   Rates   of   contributions   to  fund  in  emergency.  1.   Notwithstanding the provisions of section  five  hundred  eighty-one  of   this  chapter  to  the  contrary, all employers whose employees received   payments due to a layoff caused  by  flood  conditions  shall  not  have   included  in  their experience rating charges the amounts so paid to the   employees from the fund  for  the  period  of  from  June  twenty-third,   nineteen hundred seventy-two through June twenty-third, nineteen hundred   seventy-three.    Application  for  permission  to exclude such payments   shall be made to the commissioner on or before the first day of October,   nineteen hundred seventy-three, and the provisions of subdivision six of   section five hundred eighty-one of this chapter shall not apply hereto.2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section five  hundred  eighty-one   of  this chapter to the contrary, all employers whose employees received   payments due to the  waiver  of  the  waiting  period  pursuant  to  the   provisions  of  subdivision  nine of section five hundred ninety of this   chapter shall not have included in their experience rating  charges  the   amounts  so  paid to the employees from the fund for such waived waiting   period during the snow and energy emergency  of  January  and  February,   nineteen  hundred  seventy-seven. Application for permisssion to exclude   such payments shall be made to the commisssioner on or before the  first   day  of  October,  nineteen hundred seventy-seven, and the provisions of   subdivision six of section five hundred eighty-one of this chapter shall   not apply hereto.3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section five  hundred  eighty-one   of  this title to the contrary, and for the purpose of responding to the   COVID-19 pandemic, any employer whose employees receive  payments  under   this  article  for unemployment claims made on or after March ninth, two   thousand twenty and through the duration of the state disaster emergency   declared by executive order number  two  hundred  two  of  two  thousand   twenty  and any further amendments or modifications thereto, or December   thirty-first two thousand twenty-one, whichever is later, shall not have   included in their experience rating charges the amounts so paid  to  the   employees from the fund. Such charges, if not reimbursed, in whole or in   part by the federal government, shall be made to the general account for   the fund created by section five hundred fifty of this article.4.  The  provisions  of this section shall apply to an employer liable   for contributions or payments in  lieu  of  contributions,  but  if  the   secretary  of labor of the United States finds that their application to   such employer does not meet the requirements of the Federal Unemployment   Tax Act, such provisions shall  be  inoperative  with  respect  to  such   employer, unless and until such finding has been set aside pursuant to a   final   decision   issued   in  accordance  with  such  judicial  review   proceedings as may be instituted and completed under the  provisions  of   section thirty-three hundred ten of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.