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HERO Act Prevention Plan Activation Extended to Oct. 31

​<a title="https://www.nursetogether.com/, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FFP_and_Surgical_Face_masks_used_during_Coronavirus_pandemic_COVID-19.jpg" target="_blank"> Private employers in New York State must continue implementing their airborne infectious disease exposure prevention plans until at least October 31, 2021. The New York State Department of Health announced the extension of the requirement on September 30.  All insurance agencies should continue following their plans indefinitely.The New York State HERO Act​ required all private employers to adopt these plans by August 5, 2021. In addition, employers must implement their plans if the Health Department designates a disease as "a highly contagious communicable disease that presents a serious risk of harm to the public health." The department…

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Paid Family Leave Change To Take Effect Jan. 1

​A regulation to cap the number of days Paid Family Leave workers can use intermittently will take effect this winter. The New York State Workers Compensation Board has formally adopted it​ with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2022. This will affect both your employer clients and your agencies.The adopted regulation is identical to the one the board proposed last May, which we reported on at the time.  While the law and previous Paid Family Leave regulations express the amount of permitted leave in terms of weeks, some workers may need to take leave in increments of days (for example, to care for elderly family members on…

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Relay continues to put brokers first with the launch of I5 Affinity

A guest post by Support New York member Relay Platform​.If you have not offered an insurance Affinity Program before, the time is now.Brokers – your small business clients are struggling with a variety of new problems; navigating and implementing virtual workforces, events, covering payroll while trying not to cut costs, etc. The pandemic has shined a spotlight on the value and importance of insurance and in tandem it has created a unique opportunity for professional associations to offer relevant insurance coverage for their members through Affinity Programs.Why should you care? The insurance industry is facing a problem of supply and demand and Affinity Program partners…

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