N.Y. Labor Law § 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.