S8677 • 2025

Relates to eligibility for paid sick leave

Labor

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Sponsor: Christopher Ryan
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to eligibility for paid sick leave

Relates to eligibility for paid sick leave Requires an employer to provide sick leave to an employee who telecommutes at the same rate and under the same conditions that an employee present at the employer's work site would accrue it.

What This Bill Does

Relates to eligibility for paid sick leave Requires an employer to provide sick leave to an employee who telecommutes at the same rate and under the same conditions that an employee present at the employer's work site would accrue it.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-04-27 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-04-22 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-04-21 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.729
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO LABOR

Official Summary Text

Relates to eligibility for paid sick leave
Requires an employer to provide sick leave to an employee who telecommutes at the same rate and under the same conditions that an employee present at the employer's work site would accrue it.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8677

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     January 7, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to eligibility for paid  sick
          leave

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 196-b of the labor law is  amended
     2  by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
     3    C.  AN  EMPLOYER  MAY  NOT  EXCLUDE EMPLOYEES WHO TELECOMMUTE FROM THE
     4  PROVISIONS OF THE SICK LEAVE POLICY ESTABLISHED  BY  SUCH  EMPLOYER  FOR
     5  EMPLOYEES WHO PHYSICALLY COMMUTE TO THE EMPLOYER'S WORK SITE. AN EMPLOY-
     6  EE  WHO  TELECOMMUTES SHALL ACCRUE SICK LEAVE AT THE SAME RATE AND UNDER
     7  THE SAME CONDITIONS THAT A COMPARABLE EMPLOYEE PRESENT AT THE EMPLOYER'S
     8  WORK SITE WOULD ACCRUE IT.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    10  law  and shall apply to the accrual of paid sick leave on and after such
    11  effective date. Effective immediately, the  addition,  amendment  and/or
    12  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    13  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    14  on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13851-01-5