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TEACHERS EMPLOYED AT STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES WORKED FROM SEPTEMBER TO JUNE BUT WERE PAID AN ANNUAL SALARY; WHEN EXTRA SUMMER WORK WAS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID THEY APPLIED FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS; BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT UNEMPLOYED THEY WERE NOT ENTITLED TO BENEFITS (THIRD DEPT)

The Third Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Egan. affirming the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, determined claimants, who worked as teachers at state correctional facilities from September through June but were paid an annual salary, were not entitled to unemployment insurance benefits for the additional summer employment which was not available due to COVID. The fact that the claimants could elect to either be paid every month or only during the school year was not determinative. The claimants had an “annual” salary and therefore were not unemployed during the summer:

Under state law, regular unemployment insurance benefits require total unemployment …, which is defined as “the total lack of any employment on any day” (Labor Law § 522 [emphasis added]). “Whether a claimant is totally unemployed and thereby entitled to receive unemployment insurance benefits is a factual issue for the Board to decide and its decision will be upheld if supported by substantial evidence” … . In finding that claimants were not totally unemployed during the summer 2020 recess, the Board properly relied upon Civil Service Law § 136, which applies to teachers and instructors at state institutions, including those operated by DOCCS, and provides that the “annual salary” for those employees may be paid over 10 months or 12 months … . If they are required to work outside of the academic year, they must receive “additional compensation” beyond their annual salary, which, by definition, compensates them for the entire 12-month year including the summer recess … .

The fact that optional, additional work was not available over the summer of 2020, as it had been in prior years, does not change the analysis or conclusion that claimants remained employed over the summer recess, i.e., they were not totally unemployed … . Matter of Almindo (New York State Dept. of Corr. & Community Supervision–Commissioner of Labor), 2023 NY Slip Op 06424, 3rd Dept 12-14-23

Practice Point: Teachers who are paid an annual salary, even if paid September through June, are not unemployed during the summer. Therefore, if additional summer work becomes unavailable (due to COVID for example), the teachers are not entitled unemployment benefits for the summer months.

 

December 14, 2023
Tags: Third Department
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