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State Senate to consider domestic worker protections PUBLISHED 5:19 AM ET May. 12, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:19 AM EDT May. 12, 2021
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The state Senate on Wednesday is set to approve a package of bills meant to provide protections and rights for domestic workers in New York by insuring access to temporary disability benefits and bolstering support for caregivers.
The bills are largely aimed at ensuring domestic workers a term that can describe a wide range of jobs within a home can take time off without risking their jobs. At the same time, the measures would allow for great flexibility during a health emergency or crisis.
Viewpoint: New York, don t tax unemployment benefits
May 11, 2021
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The following editorial appeared in the New York Daily News:
A supermajority of the New York state Senate’s 63 members rarely agree on anything, but there are 44 senators (and growing) who are sponsoring a necessary bill to exempt jobless folks from having to pay income tax on the unemployment benefits they collected when COVID threw millions out of work last year.
Four million New Yorkers received unemployment compensation during 2020. Congress and President Joe Biden correctly exempted $10,200 of those funds from taxation, and normally the New York tax law would have automatically changed to match the federal rule. But COVID times aren’t normal, so it fell to Albany to act.
CARLE PLACE, NY (May 11, 2021) Today,
Senator Anna M. Kaplan (D-North Hills) and the Senate Democratic Majority advanced a legislative package to support survivors of domestic violence and combat human trafficking in New York State that builds on the Conference’s continued work to provide greater protections for those impacted by domestic violence and the horrors of human trafficking. This package relieves survivors of domestic violence from utility contracts, expands eligibility for the “Non-Parent” Grant, seizes firearms from perpetrators, expands the statute of limitations on domestic violence claims, aids prosecutors in identifying repeat offenders, and protects the voting records of victims of sexual and domestic violence.