Bill > A3517

Introduced Session

This bill requires the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development to take all measures necessary to ensure that all State unemployment office which offers unemployment insurance services reopen immediately and remain open and ensure that the department and its agencies continue to provide services to individuals, including assistance with unemployment insurance. The commissioner is also required to re-open as soon as is practicable, by March 1, 2022, any State unemployment office closed on the effective date of this bill. The bill imposes salary reductions to the commissioner and other employees if the reopening deadline is not met. Under the bill, the total compensation of the commissioner, deputy commissioner, assistant commissioners, and the department's chief of staff are to be reduced by five percent every two weeks, for the first month, thereafter until all closed State unemployment office are reopened. Furthermore, after the first month of compensation reduction, the total compensation of the commissioner, deputy commissioner, assistant commissioners, and the department's chief of staff are to be reduced by 10 percent every subsequent month thereafter and until all closed State unemployment offices are reopened. There is established a special fund in the Department of the Treasury to be known as the "Unemployed Workers Compensation Fund," into which shall be deposited the sums collected from the compensation reductions under the bill.

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Antwan McClellan (R)*,  Erik Simonsen (R)*,  Chris DePhillips (R),  Beth Sawyer (R),  Parker Space (R),  Harold Wirths (R), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee (on 03/08/2022)

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