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Paid family leave begins in New York New law will allow eight weeks of jobprotected leave at 50 percent average weekly wage By Pete DeMola EDITOR
TICONDEROGA | New Yorkers gained a new safety net on Jan. 1. The state’s new paid family leave law is among the most generous in the nation, allowing jobprotected time off to bond with a new child, care for sick family members or pitch in when a loved one in the military is deployed. Employees may now take up to eight weeks of paid leave at 50 percent of their average weekly wage. When fully phased in over the next four years, state residents will be eligible for up to 12 weeks of paid time off annually at 67 percent. The new program applies to 6.4 million private-sector workers.
Beginning on Jan. 1, state residents may take up to eight weeks of paid leave at 50 percent of their average weekly wage. Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined the new program on Long Island on Dec. 31, 2017. Photo provided/Office of the Governor of the State of New York Full-time employees will be eligible after 26 consecutive weeks on the job, while part-timers working fewer than 20 hours per week will qualify after working 175 days within 52 weeks.
Advocates say the new law will provide critical support to family members caring for older relatives. “No one should ever be forced to choose
between caring for a family member and risking their economic security,” said Beth Finkel, state director of AARP New York, in a statement. » Family leave Cont. on pg. 7
North Hudson gets new heat Town Highway Department has a wood pellet boiler By Lohr McKinstry STA FF W RITER
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NORTH HUDSON | With temperatures in the Adirondacks dipping well below zero, the Town of North Hudson’s Highway Department garage is toasty warm with its new wood pellet boiler. The new wood pellet boiler installed just in time for Christmas is a fully automated, self-feeding, high-efficiency unit that provides whole-building heat via the hot-water distribution system embedded in the concrete slab of the highway garage. The new boiler replaces an outdoor cord-wood burner that was no longer operational, and allows the town to greatly reduce the money spent on the heating oil furnace for the building. Town officials and employees were excited about the wood pellet boiler, North Hudson Supervisor Ronald Moore said. “We looked at other alternatives, but we decided that this is the best option for us,” he said. “We get to use wood for heat and we will support jobs and forest products industry through that decision, without requiring our town staff to spend time managing a cord-wood boiler.” » Pellet boiler Cont. on pg. 12
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