2016 New York Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 18 - UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE LAW
Title 7-A - (602 - 612) SHARED WORK PROGRAMS
604 - Eligibility conditions.

  604.  Eligibility  conditions.  A  claimant  shall  be eligible for
  benefits under this title if he or she works less than his or her normal
  hours in a week for  his  customary  employer,  and  that  employer  has
  reduced  or  restricted  the  claimant's  weekly  hours  of work, or has
  rehired a claimant previously laid off and reduced  his  or  her  weekly
  hours  of  work from those previously worked, as the result of a plan by
  the employer to stabilize the work force by a  program  of  sharing  the
  work  remaining  after  a  reduction  in  total  hours  of  work  and  a
  corresponding reduction in wages, provided the program requires not less
  than a twenty percent nor more than a sixty percent reduction  in  hours
  and  wages  among  the  work  force.  A  claimant receiving supplemental
  unemployment compensation benefits, as defined in section  five  hundred
  one  (c)  (17)  (D)  of  the  internal  revenue code of nineteen hundred
  fifty-four, shall not  be  eligible  hereunder.  Any  employee  who  was
  otherwise eligible for benefits under this title but was denied benefits
  during  the  period beginning October first, two thousand one and ending
  on December first, two thousand one because more than  five  percent  of
  his or her wages were derived from piece work, shall be entitled to make
  a  retroactive  claim  for  such  benefits  provided such claim is filed
  within sixty days of the effective date of this sentence.