2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 9 - Disability Benefits › 203 - Employees Eligible for Benefits Under Section Two Hundred Four of This Article.

§  203. Employees eligible for benefits under section two hundred four
  of this article. Employees in employment of a covered employer for  four
  or  more  consecutive  weeks and employees in employment during the work
  period usual to and available during such four or more consecutive weeks
  in any trade or business in which they are  regularly  employed  and  in
  which  hiring  from day to day of such employees is the usual employment
  practice shall be  eligible  for  disability  benefits  as  provided  in
  section  two  hundred four of this article. Employees in employment of a
  covered employer for twenty-six or more consecutive weeks and  employees
  in  employment during the work period usual to and available during such
  twenty-six or more consecutive weeks in any trade or business  in  which
  they  are regularly employed and in which hiring from day to day of such
  employees is the usual employment practice shall be eligible for  family
  leave  benefits as provided in section two hundred four of this article.
  Every such employee shall continue  to  be  eligible  for  family  leave
  benefits  only  during  employment  with  a covered employer. Every such
  employee shall continue to be eligible for  disability  benefits  during
  such  employment  and  for  a period of four weeks after such employment
  terminates regardless of whether the  employee  performs  any  work  for
  remuneration  or  profit  in non-covered employment. If during such four
  week period the employee performs any work for  remuneration  or  profit
  for  another  covered  employer  the  employee shall become eligible for
  disability benefits immediately with  respect  to  that  employment.  In
  addition  every  such employee who has previously completed four or more
  consecutive weeks in employment with the covered employer  for  purposes
  of  disability  benefits,  or  twenty-six  or  more consecutive weeks in
  employment with the covered employer for purposes of paid family  leave,
  and returns to work with the same employer after an agreed and specified
  unpaid  leave  of  absence or vacation without pay shall become eligible
  for benefits immediately with respect to such  employment.  An  employee
  who  during  a period in which he or she is eligible to receive benefits
  under subdivision two of section  two  hundred  seven  of  this  article
  returns  to  employment  with  a covered employer and an employee who is
  currently receiving unemployment insurance benefits  or  benefits  under
  section  two hundred seven of this article and who returns to employment
  with a covered employer shall become eligible  for  disability  benefits
  immediately  with  respect  to such employment. An employee regularly in
  the employment of a single employer on a work  schedule  less  than  the
  employer's  normal  work week shall become eligible for disability leave
  benefits on the twenty-fifth day of  such  regular  employment  and  for
  purposes  of  paid  family  leave  an employer shall become eligible for
  benefits  on  the  one  hundred  seventy-fifth  day  of   such   regular
  employment.  An employee who is eligible for disability and family leave
  benefits in the employment of a covered employer shall  not  be  deemed,
  for  the  purposes  of  this article, to have such employment terminated
  during any period he or  she  is  eligible  to  receive  benefits  under
  section   two  hundred  four  of  this  article  with  respect  to  such
  employment.