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The New York Disability Benefits Law (DBL) is article 9 of the Workers' Compensation Law (which is itself chapter 67 of the Consolidated Laws of New York) and creates a state disability insurance program designed to provide employees with some level of income replacement in case of disability caused off-the-job.
A health care union push last week submitted nearly 8,000 unresolved understaffing complaints, joining about 660 complaints that previously reached the state Department of Health, union and state ...
In New York City, the five boroughs (counties) compose one district, whereas outside of New York City each district corresponds to one county. [2] Administrative reviews ("Fair Hearings") are handled by the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Office of Administrative Hearings. [3]
The New York State Department of Labor (DOL or NYSDOL) is the department of the New York state government that enforces labor law and administers unemployment benefits. [1] [2] The mission of the New York State Department of Labor is to protect workers, assist the unemployed and connect job seekers to jobs, according to its website. [1]
The Affordable Care Act has had huge ramifications on self-funded health plans; market reforms have invalidated many plan designs that were previously used, and now that employees are required to have health insurance and many employers are required to offer health benefits as well, [3] the self-funded industry has enlarged.
Most private (non-government) health coverage in the US is employment-based. Nearly all large employers in America offer group health insurance to their employees. [71] The typical large-employer PPO plan is typically more generous than either Medicare or the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Standard Option. [72]
Contract negotiations in 1985 were particularly contentious. PEF was especially critical of a state proposal to restructure the state employee health insurance program. [44] Mediators had to be called in to help settle the contract. [45] PEF settled for 5 percent pay raises in each of the contract's three years and an accidental-death benefit. [46]
At various times in the past, the New York state government has taken money from NYSIF's reserves to cover other budget shortfalls. Between 1982 and 1990, $1.3 billion was transferred to the state's general fund under Governor Mario Cuomo. In 1996 the practice was banned by state law.