NY: Assembly Passes Legislation to Extend Death Benefits to Families of Municipal Frontline Workers
02/04/21 WorkersCompensation.com Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - Speaker Carl Heastie and Governmental Employees Committee Chair Peter Abbate, Jr. today announced the Assembly has passed legislation to extend the provisions granted last year that ensure families of municipal frontline workers who lost their lives to COVID-19 as a result of their service receive the benefits they deserve (A.3988, Abbate). “Throughout the course of this pandemic, our brave frontline workers have gotten up and gone to work every day despite the tremendous risks to their health,” said Speaker Heastie....
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