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2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7 - Benefits and Claims › 600 - Effect of Retirement Payments.

§  600.  Effect  of retirement payments. 1. Reduction of benefit rate.
(a) The benefit rate of a claimant who is receiving  a  governmental  or
other  pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or any other similar
periodic payment which is based on his previous work, shall  be  reduced
as hereinafter provided, if such payment is made under a plan maintained
or  contributed  to by his base period employer and, except for payments
made under the social security act or the  railroad  retirement  act  of
1974,  the  claimant's  employment  with,  or  remuneration  from,  such
employer after the beginning of the base period affected his eligibility
for, or increased the amount of, such  pension,  retirement  or  retired
pay, annuity, or other similar periodic payment.
(b) The claimant's benefit rate shall be reduced by the largest number
of  whole  dollars which is not more than the pro-rated weekly amount of
such payment. If the claimant was the sole contributor for the  pension,
retirement  or  retired pay, annuity, or other similar periodic payment,
no reduction shall apply.
(c) If, at the time benefits are payable, it has not been  established
that  the claimant will be receiving such pension, retirement or retired
pay, annuity or other payment, benefits due  shall  be  paid  without  a
reduction,  subject to review within the period and under the conditions
as provided in subdivisions three  and  four  of  section  five  hundred
ninety-seven with respect to retroactive payment of remuneration.
(d) For the purposes of this section, the terms "pension or retirement
payment"  and "governmental or other pension, retirement or retired pay,
annuity, or any  other  similar  periodic  payment  which  is  based  on
previous work" shall not include payments made from a qualified trust to
an  eligible retirement plan under the terms and conditions specified in
section four hundred two of the internal revenue code for federal income
tax  purposes,  such  payments  commonly  known  as  eligible   rollover
distributions.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 602 - Application.

§  602.  Application. This title shall apply to a claimant employed by
  an employer whose application to participate in a  shared  work  program
  has  been  approved  by  the commissioner. The provisions of subdivision
  four of section five hundred twenty-seven, subdivisions three and  seven
  of  section  five  hundred  ninety  and subdivision four of section five
  hundred ninety-six of this article  shall  not  be  applicable  to  such
  claimant  and  he  or she shall not be required to be available for work
  with any other employer nor shall he or she be required  to  search  for
  work  in  accordance  with  subdivision  two  of  section  five  hundred
  ninety-one of this article if he or she is  available  for  his  or  her
  usual  hours  of work with his or her employer that has been accepted to
  participate in the shared work program. The  other  provisions  of  this
  article  shall apply to such claimants and their employers to the extent
  that they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this title.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 602-A - Outreach.

§  602-a.  Outreach. 1. The commissioner shall have the obligation and
  duty of providing informational materials regarding shared work  program
  eligibility.  Such materials shall be made available on the department's
  website and provided to each employer within the state annually  through
  such means as the commissioner deems appropriate.
2. The department shall conduct outreach to employers within the state
  for  purposes  of providing information regarding the benefits of shared
  work programs, including by remote and in-person  information  sessions,
  correspondence,  assistance in completing an application for approval of
  a shared work program, and such other means as the commissioner may deem
  appropriate. The  department  shall  consult  and  coordinate  with  the
  department  of  economic development, small business development centers
  and any other relevant  agency,  department,  office,  division,  board,
  bureau, commission or authority.
3.  The  department  shall  report  to  the  governor,  the  temporary
  president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on any  and  all
  outreach  efforts  made  pursuant  to  this  section  on an annual basis
  beginning one year after the effective date of this section.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 603 - Definitions.

* § 603. Definitions. For purposes of this title: "Total unemployment"
  shall  mean the total lack of any employment on any day, other than with
  an employer applying for a shared work program. "Work force" shall  mean
  the total work force, a clearly identifiable unit or units thereof, or a
  particular  shift  or  shifts. The work force subject to reduction shall
  consist of no less than two employees.
* NB Effective until the first Monday after October 1, 2024 or 30 days
  after the commissioner of labor certifies that the department  of  labor
  has  an  information  technology  system  capable  of  accommodating the
  amendments in chapter 277 of 2021, whichever occurs earlier (see chapter
  56 of 2024 Pt.Z-§1 for further provisions)
* § 603. Definitions. For purposes of this title: "Total unemployment"
  shall mean the total lack of any employment during any week and "partial
  unemployment" shall mean any employment during any  week  that  is  less
  than  full-time employment so long as the compensation paid is less than
  the claimant's weekly benefit rate plus the claimant's  partial  benefit
  credit,  other than with an employer applying for a shared work program.
  "Work force" shall mean the total work  force,  a  clearly  identifiable
  unit  or  units thereof, or a particular shift or shifts. The work force
  subject to reduction shall consist of no less than two employees.
* NB Effective on the first Monday after October 1, 2024  or  30  days
  after  the  commissioner of labor certifies that the department of labor
  has an  information  technology  system  capable  of  accommodating  the
  amendments in chapter 277 of 2021, whichever occurs earlier (see chapter
  56 of 2024 Pt.Z-§1 for further provisions)
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 604 - Eligibility Conditions.

§  604.  Eligibility  conditions.  A  claimant  shall  be eligible for
  benefits under this title if he or she works less than his or her normal
  hours in a week for  his  customary  employer,  and  that  employer  has
  reduced  or  restricted  the  claimant's  weekly  hours  of work, or has
  rehired a claimant previously laid off and reduced  his  or  her  weekly
  hours  of  work from those previously worked, as the result of a plan by
  the employer to stabilize the work force by a  program  of  sharing  the
  work  remaining  after  a  reduction  in  total  hours  of  work  and  a
  corresponding reduction in wages, provided the program requires not less
  than a twenty percent nor more than a sixty percent reduction  in  hours
  and  wages  among  the  work  force.  A  claimant receiving supplemental
  unemployment compensation benefits, as defined in section  five  hundred
  one  (c)  (17)  (D)  of  the  internal  revenue code of nineteen hundred
  fifty-four, shall not  be  eligible  hereunder.  Any  employee  who  was
  otherwise eligible for benefits under this title but was denied benefits
  during  the  period beginning October first, two thousand one and ending
  on December first, two thousand one because more than  five  percent  of
  his or her wages were derived from piece work, shall be entitled to make
  a  retroactive  claim  for  such  benefits  provided such claim is filed
  within sixty days of the effective date of this sentence.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 605 - Qualified Employers; Application.

§  605. Qualified employers; application. An employer who has at least
  two full time employees may  apply  to  participate  in  a  shared  work
  program.  The  written application shall be made according to such forms
  and procedures as the commissioner may specify and  shall  include  such
  information  as  the  commissioner  may  require,  including  such other
  information that the United States Secretary of Labor determines  to  be
  appropriate  for  purposes  of  a  shared work program. The commissioner
  shall not approve such application unless  the  employer  (1)  certifies
  that  for  the duration of the program it will not eliminate or diminish
  health insurance, medical insurance, retirement benefits  or  any  other
  fringe   benefits   provided  to  employees  immediately  prior  to  the
  application unless such benefits  provided  to  employees  that  do  not
  participate  in the shared work program are reduced or diminished to the
  same extent as those employees  that  participate  in  the  shared  work
  program;  (2)  certifies  that  the  collective bargaining agent for the
  employees, if any,  has  agreed  to  participate  in  the  program;  (3)
  certifies  that  if  not for the shared work program to be initiated the
  employer would reduce or would have reduced its work force to  a  degree
  equivalent  to  the total number of working hours proposed to be reduced
  or restricted for all included employees; (4) certifies that it will not
  hire additional part time or full time employees for the  affected  work
  force  while the program is in operation; (5) agrees that no participant
  of the program shall receive, in the  aggregate,  more  than  twenty-six
  weeks  of  benefits  exclusive  of  the  waiting  week;  (6)  provides a
  description of how workers in the work force will  be  notified  of  the
  shared  work program in advance of it taking effect, if feasible, and if
  such notice is not feasible, provides an explanation of why such  notice
  is  not  feasible; (7) provides an estimate of the number of workers who
  would be laid off if the employer could not participate  in  the  shared
  work program; and (8) certifies that the terms of the employer's written
  plan  and  implementation  shall be consistent with employer obligations
  under applicable federal and state laws.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 605-A - Shared Work Program.

§  605-a.  Shared  work  program.  1.  Any  group of employees who may
  reasonably be expected to experience an employment loss as a consequence
  of a reduction in workforce or have experienced  employment  loss  as  a
  consequence  of  a  reduction  in  workforce may petition in writing the
  employer of such group of employees to apply to participate in a  shared
  work  program  pursuant  to  this  article for purposes of avoiding such
  reduction in workforce or for purposes of re-hiring any former  employee
  or  employees  of  the employer that were laid off due to a reduction in
  workforce. Such employer shall, no later  than  seven  days  after  such
  petition  has  been made, respond in writing to such group of employees.
  Such response shall state the decision of the employer to apply  or  not
  to  apply  to  participate  in a shared work program, and the reason for
  deciding to apply or not to  apply  to  participate  in  a  shared  work
  program,  and if the employer did apply, the outcome of the application,
  if available.
2. No employer or their agent, or person acting as or on behalf  of  a
  hiring  entity, or the officer or agent of any corporation, partnership,
  or limited liability company, shall discriminate, retaliate against,  or
  take  adverse  action  against  any  employee  for exercising the rights
  afforded to them under this section.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 606 - Revocation of Approval.

§  606. Revocation of approval. For good cause shown, the commissioner
  may, in his discretion, revoke approval  of  an  employer's  application
  previously granted. Good cause may include, but shall not be limited to,
  failure  to comply with the assurances and certifications required under
  section six hundred five hereof, failure to supply information requested
  relative to  the  operation  of  a  shared  work  program,  unreasonable
  revision  of productivity standards for the work force, or other conduct
  or occurrences tending to defeat  the  purposes,  intent  and  effective
  operation of a shared work program.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 607 - Benefits.

§  607.  Benefits.  1.  Amount.  An  eligible  claimant  shall be paid
  benefits for any week equal to his or her benefit rate multiplied by the
  percentage of reduction of his or her wages resulting from reduced hours
  of work, but only if such percentage is no less than twenty percent. The
  weekly benefit amount shall be rounded off  to  the  nearest  dollar.  A
  claimant  shall  not be paid such benefits in excess of twenty-six times
  the amount of regular compensation  (including  dependents'  allowances)
  payable  to  such  individual  for a week of total unemployment during a
  benefit year.
2. Waiting period. A claimant shall not be entitled  to  benefits  for
  the  first week of unemployment under a shared work program unless he or
  she has served a waiting period in his or her benefit year  pursuant  to
  subdivision seven of section five hundred ninety of this article.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 608 - Maximum Payments.

§  608. Maximum payments. In no event shall total benefits paid in any
  benefit year, either under this title, the other titles of this article,
  or both, exceed the  maximum  amount  for  which  a  claimant  would  be
  eligible under the other titles of this article alone.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 609 - Training.

§  609.  Training. Eligible employees may participate, as appropriate,
  in training to enhance job skills if such program has been  approved  by
  the  commissioner. Such training may include employer-sponsored training
  or worker training funded under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 610 - Commencement.

§  610. Commencement. A shared work program and payment of benefits to
  claimants thereunder shall begin with the first week following  approval
  of an application by the commissioner or the first week specified by the
  employer, whichever is later.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 611 - Charging of Benefits.

§  611.  Charging  of  benefits.  Benefits paid to a claimant shall be
  charged to the employers' accounts  as  provided  in  paragraph  (e)  of
  subdivision one of section five hundred eighty-one of this article.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 7-A - Shared Work Programs › 612 - Severability.

§ 612. Severability. If any amendment contained in a clause, sentence,
  paragraph, section or part of this title shall be adjudged by the United
  States  Department  of  Labor  to  violate  requirements for maintaining
  benefit standards required of the state in order to be eligible for  any
  financial  benefit  offered through federal law or regulation including,
  but not limited to, the waiver of interest on advances or the waiver  of
  obligations  to  repay such advances to the state unemployment insurance
  fund, such amendments shall be severed  from  this  act  and  shall  not
  affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 8 - Hearings and Appeals › 621 - Appeals to Appeal Board.

§  621.  Appeals  to  appeal  board.  1. Disputed claims for benefits.
  Within twenty days after the mailing or personal delivery of  notice  of
  the  decision of a referee on contested benefit claims, the claimant and
  the employer, provided he appeared at the hearing,  may  appeal  to  the
  appeal  board by filing a notice of appeal in the local state employment
  office  in  accordance  with  such  rules  as  the  appeal  board  shall
  prescribe.  Within  the  same period of time and in the same manner, the
  commissioner may also appeal to the appeal board, regardless of  whether
  or not he appeared or was represented at the hearing before the referee.
2.  Contested  determinations,  rules,  or  orders. Within twenty days
  after the mailing or personal delivery of notice of the decision after a
  hearing  on  contested  determinations,   rules   or   orders   by   the
  commissioner,  the  employer  may  take  an  appeal to the appeal board,
  provided he appeared at the hearing, by filing a notice of  appeal  with
  the  commissioner,  and the commissioner may likewise within such period
  take an appeal to the board by giving  written  notice  thereof  to  the
  employer,  regardless of whether or not the commissioner appeared or was
  represented at the hearing before the referee.
3. Conduct of appeals. The appeal board may decide any  case  appealed
  to it under any provision of this article on the basis of the record and
  of  evidence  previously  submitted  in  such  case,  or  it  may in its
  discretion hear argument or hold a further hearing, or remand such  case
  to a referee for such purposes as it may direct. If a further hearing is
  to  be  held  or  argument  had, the board shall fix a time therefor and
  shall notify the commissioner, regardless  of  whether  or  not  he  had
  appeared  or been represented at the hearing before the referee, and any
  other party affected, provided such other party appeared at the  hearing
  before  the referee. The board may affirm or reverse, wholly or in part,
  or may modify the decision appealed from and shall render  its  decision
  promptly  and  shall thereupon send written notice thereof together with
  the reasons therefor to the commissioner and any  other  party  affected
  thereby who appeared at the hearing before the referee.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 8 - Hearings and Appeals › 622 - Rules Governing Hearings and Appeals.

§ 622. Rules governing hearings and appeals. 1. Rules and regulations.
  The  manner  in  which  disputes  and  appeals shall be presented before
  referees and the appeal board, respectively, and the conduct of hearings
  before referees and the board shall be governed by  suitable  rules  and
  regulations established by the board.
2.  Evidence  and  procedure.  At any hearing held as herein provided,
  evidence may be offered to support a determination, rule, or order or to
  prove that it is incorrect.  The  appeal  board  and  the  referees,  in
  hearings  and  appeals under any provision of this article, shall not be
  bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or  by  technical  or
  formal  rules  of  procedure but may conduct the hearings and appeals in
  such manner as to ascertain  the  substantial  rights  of  the  parties.
  Hearings  governed by this article may be closed and hearing transcripts
  may be redacted in accordance with applicable federal or state statutory
  and regulatory requirements governing  information  confidentiality  and
  personal privacy, including, but not limited to, article six and article
  six-A of the public officers law.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 8 - Hearings and Appeals › 623 - Decisions Final.

§  623.  Decisions  final. 1. A decision of a referee, if not appealed
  from, shall be final on all questions of fact and law. A decision of the
  appeal board shall be  final  on  all  questions  of  fact  and,  unless
  appealed from, shall be final on all questions of law.
2. No finding of fact or law contained in a decision rendered pursuant
  to this article by a referee, the appeal board or a court shall preclude
  the  litigation  of any issue of fact or law in any subsequent action or
  proceeding; provided, however, that this subdivision shall not apply  to
  causes  of  action  which  (i)  arise  under  this article, (ii) seek to
  collect or challenge liability for unemployment insurance contributions,
  (iii) seek to recover overpayments of unemployment  insurance  benefits,
  or  (iv)  allege  that  a claimant or employer was denied constitutional
  rights  in  connection  with  the  administrative  processing,  hearing,
  determination  or  decision  of  a  claim  for benefits or assessment of
  liability for unemployment insurance contributions.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 8 - Hearings and Appeals › 624 - Appeals to Courts.

§  624.  Appeals  to  courts.  Within thirty days after the mailing or
  personal delivery of notice of a  decision  by  the  appeal  board,  the
  commissioner  or  any  other  party affected thereby who appeared at the
  appeal before the board may appeal questions of  law  involved  in  such
  decision   to  the  appellate  division  of  the  supreme  court,  third
  department. The board may also, in its discretion, certify to such court
  questions of law involved in  its  decisions.    Such  appeals  and  the
  questions so certified shall be heard in a summary manner and shall have
  precedence over all other civil cases in such court except cases arising
  under   the  workmen's  compensation  law.  The  commissioner  shall  be
  represented  in  court  by  the  attorney-general   without   additional
  compensation.  An appeal may be taken from the decision of such court to
  the court of appeals  in  the  same  manner  and  subject  to  the  same
  limitations,  not  inconsistent  herewith,  as  is provided for in civil
  action. It shall not be necessary to file exception to  the  rulings  of
  the  appeal  board. No bond shall be required to be filed upon an appeal
  to the appellate  division  or  to  the  court  of  appeals,  except  as
  hereinafter  provided. Upon final determination of an appeal, the appeal
  board shall enter an order in accordance with such determination.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 8 - Hearings and Appeals › 625 - Undertaking on Appeal.

§  625. Undertaking on appeal. No appeal shall be taken by an employer
  from a decision of the appeal board determining a sum  to  be  due  from
  such  employer  unless  the amount involved, with interest and penalties
  thereon, if any, shall be first deposited with the commissioner  and  an
  undertaking  filed  with  the commissioner, in such amount and with such
  sureties as a justice of the supreme court shall approve, to the  effect
  that  the  employer will pay all costs and charges which may be adjudged
  against him in the prosecution of such appeal.  At  the  option  of  the
  employer,  such undertaking may be in a sum sufficient to cover the said
  amount, interest, penalties, costs, and charges as aforesaid,  in  which
  event  the  employer  shall not be required to deposit such amount, with
  the interest and penalties, as a condition precedent to the taking of an
  appeal.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 8 - Hearings and Appeals › 626 - Exclusive Procedure.

§ 626. Exclusive procedure. The procedure herein provided for hearings
  before referees with respect to any determination, rule, or order of the
  commissioner, and for decisions thereon and for appeals therefrom, first
  to  the appeal board and thereafter to the courts, shall be the sole and
  exclusive procedure notwithstanding any other provision of law.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 9 - Penalities and Misdemeanors › 630 - Penalties.

§  630.  Penalties.  Any  misdemeanor  defined  in this title shall be
  punishable  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  or
  imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
The  penalties  and misdemeanors imposed by this title are in addition
  to those otherwise prescribed in this entire article.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 9 - Penalities and Misdemeanors › 632 - False Statements or Representations.

§   632.   False   statements  or  representations.  1.  Benefits  and
contributions.  Any person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor who wilfully
makes a false statement or representation
(a) with the effect of obtaining, either for himself or for any  other
person, any benefit or payment under the provision of this article or of
any similar law of another state or the United States in regard to which
this  state acted as agent pursuant to an arrangement authorized by this
article, or
(b) in order to reduce the amount of contributions to the fund.
2. Sale price of commodities. Any person who, in connection  with  the
sale  or  offer for sale of any commodity or service, or for the purpose
of making such sale, makes any statement, written or oral,  ascribing  a
particular  part  of  the  price  of  such  commodity  or  service  to a
contribution imposed under this article knowing that such  statement  is
false  or  that  the contribution is not so great as the portion of such
price ascribed to such contribution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 9 - Penalities and Misdemeanors › 634 - Refusal to Permit Inspections of Records.

§  634.  Refusal  to  permit  inspections  of  records. Any person who
  refuses to allow the commissioner or his  authorized  representative  to
  inspect  his  payroll  or  other  records  or  documents relative to the
  enforcement of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 9 - Penalities and Misdemeanors › 635 - Deductions From Wages.

§  635. Deductions from wages. Any employer who shall make a deduction
  from the remuneration  of  any  employee  to  pay  any  portion  of  the
  contribution which the employer is required to make shall be guilty of a
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 9 - Penalities and Misdemeanors › 636 - No Fees to Be Charged for Services Rendered by Free Public Employment Bureaus.

§  636.  No  fees  to  be charged for services rendered by free public
  employment bureaus.   A person connected with  or  employed  in  a  free
  public  employment  bureau,  who  shall  charge  or  receive directly or
  indirectly any fee or compensation from  any  person  applying  to  such
  bureau for help or employment, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 10 - General and Miscellaneous Provisions › 640 - Prosecution and Litigation.

§  640.  Prosecution and litigation.   The failure by any person to do
  any act required by or under the provisions of  this  article  shall  be
  deemed  an  act  committed  in  part  at  the  office  of the industrial
  commissioner in Albany and committed in part  in  the  place  where  the
  person  resides  or has a place for the regular transaction of business.
  The certificate of the  industrial  commissioner  or  deputy  industrial
  commissioner  to  the effect that contribution has not been paid, that a
  report has not been filed, or that information has not been supplied, as
  required  by  or  under  the  provisions  of  this  article,  shall   be
  prima-facie evidence that such contribution has not been paid, that such
  report  has  not  been  filed,  or  that  such  information has not been
  supplied.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 10 - General and Miscellaneous Provisions › 642 - Separability of Provisions.

§  642.  Separability of provisions.  If any provision of this article
  or the application  thereof  to  any  person  or  circumstance  is  held
  invalid,  the  remainder  of  the  article  and  the application of such
  provision to other  persons  or  circumstances  shall  not  be  affected
  thereby.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 18 - Unemployment Insurance Law › Title 10 - General and Miscellaneous Provisions › 643 - Saving Clause.

§  643.  Saving clause.   The legislature reserves the right to amend,
  alter, or repeal any provision of this article; and no person  shall  be
  or  be deemed to be vested with any property or other right by virtue of
  the enactment or operation of this article.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 650 - Statement of Public Policy.

§ 650. Statement of public policy.  There are persons employed in some
  occupations  in  the  state of New York at wages insufficient to provide
  adequate maintenance for themselves and their families. Such  employment
  impairs  the  health,  efficiency,  and  well-being  of  the  persons so
  employed, constitutes unfair competition  against  other  employers  and
  their  employees,  threatens  the  stability  of  industry,  reduces the
  purchasing power of employees, and requires,  in  many  instances,  that
  wages  be  supplemented  by  the  payment of public moneys for relief or
  other public and private assistance.  Employment  of  persons  at  these
  insufficient  rates  of  pay  threatens the health and well-being of the
  people of this state and injures the overall economy.
Accordingly, it is the declared policy of the state of New  York  that
  such   conditions  be  eliminated  as  rapidly  as  practicable  without
  substantially curtailing opportunities for employment or earning  power.
  To this end minimum wage standards shall be established and maintained.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 653 - Investigation of Adequacy of Wages.

§  653. Investigation of adequacy of wages. (1) The commissioner shall
have power on his own motion to cause an investigation to be made of the
wages being paid to persons employed in any occupation or occupations to
ascertain whether the minimum wages established in accordance  with  the
provisions   of   this   article  are  sufficient  to  provide  adequate
maintenance and to protect the health of the persons  employed  in  such
occupation  or  occupations.  The commissioner shall, on the petition of
fifty or more residents of the  state  engaged  in  or  affected  by  an
occupation  or  occupations  sought  to  be  investigated, cause such an
investigation of such occupation or occupations to be conducted. If,  on
the  basis  of  information  in  his  possession with or without such an
investigation, the commissioner is of the opinion that  any  substantial
number  of  persons  employed  in  any  occupation  or  occupations  are
receiving wages insufficient to  provide  adequate  maintenance  and  to
protect  their health, he shall appoint a wage board to inquire into and
report  and  recommend  adequate  minimum  wages  and  regulations   for
employees in such occupation or occupations.
(2)  The  commissioner shall, within six months after enactment of any
change in the statutory minimum wage set forth  in  subdivision  one  of
section  six  hundred fifty-two of this article, appoint a wage board to
inquire and report and recommend any changes to  wage  orders  governing
wages  payable  to  food  service  workers.  Such  wage  board  shall be
established consistent with the provisions of subdivision one of section
six hundred fifty-five of this article, except  the  representatives  of
the  employees  shall  be  selected  upon  the  nomination  of the state
American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial  Organizations;  and
provided,  further,  that  the representatives of the employers shall be
selected upon the nomination of the New York State Business Council. Any
wage order authorizing a lesser wage than the previously and statutorily
mandated minimum wage for such employees shall be reviewed by  the  wage
board  to  ascertain  at  what  level  such  wage order is sufficient to
provide adequate maintenance and to protect the health and livelihood of
employees subject to such a wage order after a statutory increase in the
mandated minimum wage.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 654 - Basis of Changes in Minimum Wage.

§  654.  Basis  of  changes in minimum wage.   In establishing minimum
  wages and regulations for any occupation or occupations pursuant to  the
  provisions of the following sections of this article, the wage board and
  the  commissioner  shall  consider  the  amount  sufficient  to  provide
  adequate maintenance and to protect health and, in  addition,  the  wage
  board  and  the  commissioner  shall  consider  the value of the work or
  classification of work performed, and the wages paid in  the  state  for
  work of like or comparable character.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 656 - Action by Commissioner Upon Wage Board Report.

§  656.  Action by commissioner upon wage board report.  When the wage
  board submits its report and recommendations to  the  commissioner,  the
  commissioner  shall  forthwith  file  them  with  the  secretary  of the
  department. Within five days of their receipt,  the  commissioner  shall
  publish  a  notice  of such filing in at least ten newspapers of general
  circulation  in  the  state.  Any   objections   to   the   report   and
  recommendations shall be filed with the commissioner within fifteen days
  after   such   publication.   The  commissioner  may,  if  he  deems  it
  appropriate, order oral argument, which shall be  scheduled  before  the
  commissioner,  or such representative as he may designate, on five days'
  notice to the persons who  have  filed  objections  to  the  report  and
  recommendations.   Whether  or  not  oral  argument  is  scheduled,  the
  commissioner shall by order accept or  reject  the  board's  report  and
  recommendations  within  forty-five days after filing with the secretary
  of the department.  The  commissioner  may  by  such  order  modify  the
  regulations  recommended  by  the  board. Such order of the commissioner
  shall become effective thirty days  after  publication,  in  the  manner
  prescribed  in this section, of a notice of such order. The commissioner
  may, within such forty-five days, confer with the wage board, which  may
  make  such  changes in its report or recommendations as it may deem fit.
  The commissioner also may,  within  such  forty-five  days,  remand  the
  matter to the board for such further proceeding as he may direct.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 658 - Appeals From Compliance Orders.

§  658.  Appeals from compliance orders. An appeal pursuant to section
  two hundred eighteen or two hundred nineteen of  this  chapter  from  an
  order issued by the commissioner directing compliance with any provision
  of this article or with any minimum wage order or regulation promulgated
  thereunder,  shall  not  bring  under  review  any minimum wage order or
  regulation promulgated under this article. The provisions of subdivision
  two  of  section  six  hundred  fifty-seven  relating  to  appeals  from
  determinations  of  the  board  and the provisions of subdivisions three
  through seven of section six  hundred  fifty-seven  shall  apply  to  an
  appeal from a compliance order.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 659 - Reconsideration of Wage Orders and Regulations.

§  659.  Reconsideration  of  wage orders and regulations.  1. By wage
  board. At any time after a minimum wage order has been in effect for six
  months or more, the commissioner, on his own motion or on a petition  of
  fifty  or  more  residents  of  the  state engaged in or affected by the
  occupation or occupations to which an order is applicable, may reconvene
  the same wage board or appoint a new wage board to recommend whether  or
  not  the minimum wage and regulations prescribed by such order should be
  modified, and the provisions of section six hundred  fifty-five  through
  six hundred fifty-seven shall thereafter apply.
2.  By  commissioner.  The  commissioner, without referral to the wage
  board, may, at any time after public  hearing,  by  order  propose  such
  modifications  of  or  additions  to  any  regulations  as  he  may deem
  appropriate to effectuate  the  purposes  of  this  article.  Notice  of
  hearing  and  promulgation  of  any  such  order  shall  be published in
  accordance  with  the  provisions  contained  in  section  six   hundred
  fifty-six.    Such  order  shall  be  effective  thirty  days after such
  publication and section six hundred fifty-seven shall thereafter apply.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 660 - Commissioner's Powers of Investigation.

§ 660. Commissioner's powers of investigation. The commissioner or his
  authorized representative shall have power: (a) to investigate the wages
  of  persons  in  any  occupation in the state; (b) to enter the place of
  business or employment of any employer for the purpose of (1)  examining
  and  inspecting any and all books, registers, payrolls and other records
  that in any way relate to or have a bearing upon the wages paid  to,  or
  the  hours  worked  by  any  employees,  (2)  ascertaining  whether  the
  provisions of this article and the orders  and  regulations  promulgated
  hereunder  are being complied with; and (c) to require from any employer
  full and correct statements and reports in writing, at such times as the
  commissioner may deem necessary, of the wages  paid  to  and  the  hours
  worked by his employees.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 661 - Records of Employers.

§  661.  Records  of  employers.  For  all  employees  covered by this
  article, every employer shall establish, maintain, and preserve for  not
  less  than six years contemporaneous, true, and accurate payroll records
  showing for each week worked the hours worked, the rate or rates of  pay
  and  basis  thereof, whether paid by the hour, shift, day, week, salary,
  piece, commission, or other basis; gross wages; deductions;  allowances,
  if  any,  claimed  as  part  of the minimum wage; and net wages for each
  employee, plus such other information as the commissioner deems material
  and necessary. For all  employees  who  are  not  exempt  from  overtime
  compensation as established in the commissioner's minimum wage orders or
  otherwise  provided  by  New  York  state law or regulation, the payroll
  records must include the regular  hourly  rate  or  rates  of  pay,  the
  overtime  rate  or rates of pay, the number of regular hours worked, and
  the number of overtime hours worked. For  all  employees  paid  a  piece
  rate,  the  payroll  records  shall include the applicable piece rate or
  rates of pay and number of pieces  completed  at  each  piece  rate.  On
  demand,  the  employer  shall  furnish  to  the commissioner or his duly
  authorized representative a sworn statement of the hours worked, rate or
  rates of pay and basis thereof, whether paid by the  hour,  shift,  day,
  week,   salary,   piece,   commission,  or  other  basis;  gross  wages;
  deductions; and allowances, if any, claimed as part of the minimum wage,
  for each employee, plus such other information as the commissioner deems
  material and necessary. Every employer shall keep such records  open  to
  inspection  by the commissioner or his duly authorized representative at
  any reasonable time. Every employer of an employee shall keep  a  digest
  and  summary  of  this  article or applicable wage order, which shall be
  prepared by the commissioner, posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  his
  establishment  and shall also keep posted such additional copies of said
  digest and summary as the commissioner prescribes. Employers  shall,  on
  request,  be furnished with copies of this article and of orders, and of
  digests and summaries thereof, without charge.  Employers  shall  permit
  the  commissioner  or  his  duly  authorized  representative to question
  without interference any employee of such employer in a private location
  at the place of employment and during working hours in  respect  to  the
  wages paid to and the hours worked by such employee or other employees.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 662 - Penalties.

§  662.  Penalties.  1.  Failure  to  pay  minimum  wage  or  overtime
  compensation. Any employer or his or her agent, or the officer or  agent
  of  any corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, who pays
  or agrees to pay to any employee less than  the  wage  applicable  under
  this  article  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor and upon conviction
  therefor shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than  twenty
  thousand  dollars  or imprisoned for not more than one year, and, in the
  event that any second or subsequent offense occurs within six  years  of
  the  date of conviction for a prior offense, shall be guilty of a felony
  for the second or subsequent  offense,  and  upon  conviction  therefor,
  shall  be fined not less than five hundred nor more than twenty thousand
  dollars or imprisoned for not more  than  one  year  plus  one  day,  or
  punished by both such fine and imprisonment, for each such offense. Each
  payment  to  any  employee  in any week of less than the wage applicable
  under this article shall constitute a separate offense.
2. Failure to keep records. Any employer or his or her agent,  or  the
  officer  or  agent of any corporation, partnership, or limited liability
  company, who fails to keep the records required under this article or to
  furnish such records or any information required to be  furnished  under
  this article to the commissioner or his or her authorized representative
  upon  request,  or  who hinders or delays the commissioner or his or her
  authorized representative in the performance of his or her duties in the
  enforcement of this article, or refuses to admit the commissioner or his
  or  her  authorized  representative  to  any  place  of  employment,  or
  falsifies any such records or refuses to make such records accessible to
  the  commissioner or his or her authorized representative, or refuses to
  furnish a sworn statement of  such  records  or  any  other  information
  required  for the proper enforcement of this article to the commissioner
  or  his  or  her  authorized  representative,  shall  be  guilty  of   a
  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction therefor shall be fined not less than
  five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned  for  not
  more  than  one  year,  and,  in the event that any second or subsequent
  offense occurs within six years of the date of conviction  for  a  prior
  offense,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  felony  for the second or subsequent
  offense, and upon conviction therefor, shall be fined not less than five
  hundred nor more than twenty thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more
  than one  year  plus  one  day,  or  punished  by  both  such  fine  and
  imprisonment,  for  each  such  offense.  Each day's failure to keep the
  records requested under this article  or  to  furnish  such  records  or
  information  to the commissioner or his or her authorized representative
  shall constitute a separate offense.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 664 - Referrals by Employment Agencies.

§  664.  Referrals by employment agencies.  No employment agency shall
  place or attempt to place any employee in an occupation at less than the
  wage applicable to such occupation under this article.
The term "employment agency" as used in this  section  shall  mean  an
  employment  agency  as defined in section one hundred seventy-one of the
  general business law.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act › 665 - Savings Clause.

§  665.  Savings  clause.    If  any  provision of this article or the
  application thereof to any person, employer, occupation or  circumstance
  is  held  invalid,  the  remainder of the article and the application of
  such  provision   to   other   persons,   employees,   occupations,   or
  circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19-A - Minimum Wage Standards and Protective Labor Practices for Farm Workers › 670 - Statement of Public Policy; Findings.

§  670.  Statement of public policy; findings.  The legislature of the
  state of New York declares that it is the public policy of the state and
  the purpose of this act that minimum wage standards shall apply to  farm
  workers,  so as to eliminate as rapidly as practicable the employment of
  farm workers at wages insufficient to provide adequate  maintenance  and
  protection of health, without substantially curtailing opportunities for
  employment or earning power.
The  legislature  hereby  finds that the establishment of minimum wage
  standards for farm laborers involves distinct and unusual problems; that
  the agricultural labor force is made up of regular all-year  workers  as
  well as short-term seasonal workers; that although some workers are paid
  on  an  hourly  basis, many are paid on a piecework, weekly, monthly, or
  other basis; and that the agricultural industry is particularly affected
  by weather and market  conditions  and  by  perishability  of  products.
  Accordingly,  the legislature further declares that it is the purpose of
  this act to provide a flexible approach with full consideration  of  the
  unusual problems involved.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 19-A - Minimum Wage Standards and Protective Labor Practices for Farm Workers › 672 - Application of Article.

§  672.  Application  of  article.  This  article shall apply to every
  employer during any part of  the  twelve  consecutive  months  beginning
  February  first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy  and February first of each
  subsequent  year,  preceded  by  a  calendar  year  in  which  the  cash
  remuneration  paid to all employees aggregated twelve hundred dollars or
  more, provided, however, that one hundred eighty  days  after  this  act
  shall  take  effect this article shall apply to every employer if in the
  previous calendar year the  cash  remuneration  paid  to  all  employees
  aggregated  two  thousand  dollars  or  more and on July first, nineteen
  hundred eighty-four this article shall apply to every employer if in the
  previous calendar year the  cash  remuneration  paid  to  all  employees
  aggregated three thousand dollars or more.