§ 591. Eligibility for benefits. * 1. Unemployment. Benefits, except\nas provided in section five hundred ninety-one-a of this title, shall be\npaid only to a claimant who is totally unemployed or partially\nunemployed. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this article\nshall not be denied such benefits pursuant to this subdivision or to\nsubdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service on a\ngrand or petit jury of any state or of the United States.\n * NB Effective until December 7, 2027\n * 1. Unemployment. Benefits shall be paid only to a claimant who is\ntotally unemployed or partially unemployed. A claimant who is receiving\nbenefits under this article shall not be denied such benefits pursuant\nto this subdivision or to subdivision two of this section because of\nsuch claimant's service on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the\nUnited States.\n * NB Effective December 7, 2027\n * 2. Availability and capability. Except as provided in section five\nhundred ninety-one-a of this title, no benefits shall be payable to any\nclaimant who is not capable of work or who is not ready, willing and\nable to work in his usual employment or in any other for which he is\nreasonably fitted by training and experience.\n * NB Effective until December 7, 2027\n * 2. Availability, capability, and work search. No benefits shall be\npayable to any claimant who is not capable of work or who is not ready,\nwilling and able to work in his or her usual employment or in any other\nfor which he or she is reasonably fitted by training and experience and\nwho is not actively seeking work. In order to be actively seeking work a\nclaimant must be engaged in systematic and sustained efforts to find\nwork. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations defining systematic\nand sustained efforts to find work and setting standards for the proof\nof work search efforts. Such regulations shall take into account the\nneed for claimants to provide child care for their child or children.\n * NB Effective December 7, 2027\n 3. Vacation period or holiday.\n (a) Compensation paid to a claimant for any day during a paid vacation\nperiod, or for a paid holiday, shall be considered compensation from\nemployment and shall be included in the calculation of a claimant's\nbenefit for partial unemployment as set forth in subdivision five of\nsection five hundred ninety of this article.\n (b) The term "vacation period", as used in this subdivision, means the\ntime designated for vacation purposes in accordance with the collective\nbargaining agreement or the employment contract or by the employer and\nthe claimant, his union, or his representative. If either the collective\nbargaining agreement or the employment contract is silent as to such\ntime, or if there be no collective bargaining agreement or employment\ncontract, then the time so designated in writing and announced to the\nemployees in advance by the employer is to be considered such vacation\nperiod.\n (c) A paid vacation period or a paid holiday is a vacation period or a\nholiday for which a claimant is given a payment or allowance not later\nthan thirty days thereafter, directly by his employer or through a fund,\ntrustee, custodian or like medium provided the amount thereof has been\ncontributed solely by the employer on behalf of the claimant and the\namount so contributed by the employer is paid over in full to the\nclaimant without any deductions other than those required by law, even\nif such payment or allowance be deemed to be rumuneration for prior\nservices rendered as an accrued contractual right, and irrespective of\nwhether the employment has or has not been terminated.\n (d) Any agreement expressed or implied by a claimant or by his union\nor other representative to a plant or department shut down for vacation\npurposes is not of itself to be considered either a withdrawal by such\nemployee from the labor market during the time of such vacation shut\ndown o
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