LABOR & HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL
Staff Contact: Tom Minnick

Presentations 2008 Human Resource Legislative Conference

• Navigating UI Fundamentals
  Edward J. Delehanty, NYS Department of Labor
• Labor Standards Seminar for Employers
  NYS Department of Labor

Posters and Model Notices -

• Election Law
• About the I-9 Form
• Form I-9
• Beck Notice
• A Guide for Employers to New York State's Clean Indoor Air Act
• "No Smoking" Poster
• Federal Employee Polygraph Protection Act Poster
• Federal Minimum Wage Poster
• Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Poster
• Federal Family Medical Leave Poster
• State Human Rights Poster
• State Minimum Wage Poster
• Veterans' Poster
• OSHA Poster
• Model Initial COBRA Notice
• Model COBRA Notice - Qualifying event
• Family/Medical Leave "Certification of Health Care Provider"

ISSUES AND PRIORITIES

Paid Family Leave

• June 5, 2007 Paid Family Leave testimony
• ASSEMBLY PAID FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE DEBATE (June 24, 2005)
• Council: 'Family leave' proposals would burden New York businesses (June 5, 2007)

2007-08 Legislative Memos

• S.627, UI waiting period for strikers
• S.1952 / A.6927, Increases the maximum disability benefit
• S.4738 / A.7999, allows disability benefits for non-disabled persons
• S.6489-A (Marcellino) Oppose, UI waiting period for strikers
• A.7528 (Nolan) / S.3884 (Flanagan), Oppose, Includes agricultural workers within the State Labor Relations Act; as covered employment for unemployment insurance benefit purposes; and other employment-based benefits
• A.9168-A (Silver), Oppose, Mimimum wage
• A.9245 (Silver), Oppose, Paid family leave

Committee Meeting Notes

• July 6, 2006
• April 3 & 4, 2006
• December 6, 2005
• October 6, 2005
• August 10, 2005

Council Labor NEWS

• Council opposes proposed change to labor law (February 7, 2006)
• Echoing Council arguments, court overturns state's controversial 'labor neutrality' law, 5/18/05
• Citing Business Council opposition, Governor vetoes union-backed bill 11/16/04
• Unions' political party endorses Senators who supported minimum-wage vote 8/10/04
• State legislators approve bill to increase state's minimum wage 7/21/04
• Cornell University researchers: Big minimum-wage increase would cut job opportunities for entry-level workers 7/15/04
• Public Policy Institute tackles the "Living Wage"

Related Web sites:

• New York State Department of Labor
• U.S. Department of Labor
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• New York JSEC, Inc.
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
• Society for Human Resource Management
• NYS Society for Human Resource Management