We are now eleven days away from New Yorkers becoming eligible for paid family leave benefits under a law enacted in 2015. Questions from Big I New York members continue to come in (see my Nov. 15, 2017 post for a previous one), and I thought I'd share a few of them, along with my attempts at answers.
Question from a member: Are part-time employees who are high school students eligible for paid family leave and disability benefits under New York law?
Answer: High school students are ineligible for benefits under the NYS Disability Benefits Law and Paid Family Leave Benefits Law (Article 9 of the New York Workers’ Compensation Law). Section 204 of that article says,
“1. Disability benefits shall be payable to an eligible employee for disabilities, beginning with the eighth day of disability and thereafter during the continuance of disability ... Family leave benefits shall be payable to an eligible employee for the first full day when family leave is required and thereafter during the continuance of the need for family leave …”
DBL and PFL benefits are payable to “eligible employees”. Section 203 describes who is an eligible employee:
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