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Cost-Saving Ideas: Minimizing Unemployment Insurance Costs
… You can take steps to reduce the cost of unemployment insurance, which provides short-term financial assistance to … After you terminate an employee and file for unemployment insurance, DOL will determine whether or not the employee is … uses the tax contribution method to fund unemployment insurance. Document your reviews thoroughly and ensure that …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/publications/cost-saving-ideas-minimizing-unemployment-insurance-costsState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits
… announced today the following audits have been issued. Department of Motor Vehicles – Language Access Services … Authority – Management and Maintenance of Non-Revenue Service Vehicles (Follow-Up) (2024-F-16) Under the … implementing two, and not implementing five. Empire State Development – Oversight of Select High-Technology Projects …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/04/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-audits-0NYS Pension Fund Commits $2 Billion to Climate Transition Index
… determine the Fund’s progress toward its interim goal of 50% alignment by 2030. In addition, the Fund is setting other … goals for 2030 that include actively engaging with 50% of the Fund’s publicly traded assets in high-impact …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/12/nys-pension-fund-commits-2-billion-climate-transition-indexDiNapoli: Major Retailers Agree to Report on Efforts to Protect Human Rights, Workplace Safety
… New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced … have agreed to shareholder proposals filed by the New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund) that asked the companies … can create stronger companies and safeguard the New York State Common Retirement Fund's investments." DiNapoli's …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/03/dinapoli-major-retailers-agree-report-efforts-protect-human-rights-workplace-safetyDiNapoli Presses Worst Greenhouse Gas Emitters to Meet Paris Climate Agreement Goals
… modeled on one of the Fund's existing indices of domestic stocks, the Russell 1000. In January 2018, DiNapoli announced …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/04/dinapoli-presses-worst-greenhouse-gas-emitters-meet-paris-climate-agreement-goalsState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits
… gamblers or whether OASAS’ limited resources were applied where they were needed most. In a follow-up, auditors found … operating policies and procedures; improve how information is recorded in the Equine Breakdown, Death, Injury and … in an Opioid Treatment Program (Follow-Up) (2019-F-53) An audit released in November 2018 identified 18,786 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/05/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-auditsState Agencies Bulletin No. 235
… Purpose To revise the guidelines governing OSC's review and approval of retroactive … Additionally, OSC recognizes that the current guidelines governing retroactive salary transactions do not … such transactions. Accordingly, OSC has revised the guidelines to increase flexibility and improve processing …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/235-retroactive-salary-transactions-executive-branch-agenciesSUNY Bulletin No. SU-263
… Actions Prior to processing, agencies must complete a roster identifying employees who will receive a recruitment … and must include the earnings code and payment amount. The roster must be forwarded to SUNY System Administration. A copy of this roster will be provided to OSC in an Excel format. To pay the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-university-new-york/su-263-suny-recruitment-and-retention-payments-gsnu-employeesSUNY Bulletin No. SU-252
… Actions Prior to processing, agencies must complete a roster identifying employees who will receive a recruitment … and must include the earnings code and payment amount. The roster must be forwarded to SUNY System Administration. A copy of this roster will be provided to OSC in an Excel format. To pay the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-university-new-york/su-252-suny-recruitment-and-retention-payments-gsnu-employeesState Agencies Bulletin No. 884
… Purpose To provide agencies with information about payment of vacation credits to those M/C employees who separated from … Per the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 6 of the Civil Service Law, Section 30.4 of Part 30 of the Attendance Rules in the New York State …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/884-restoration-and-payment-managementconfidential-mc-vacation-creditsState Agencies Bulletin No. 991
… of a new Time Entry code and to provide instructions for payment of the 2009 Uniform Cleaning and Maintenance Allowance for Lifeguards. Affected Employees Eligible employees in … Background GOER memorandum dated February 5, 2010 provides for Uniform Cleaning and Maintenance Allowance payments to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/991-2009-uniform-cleaning-and-maintenance-allowance-lifeguardsTravel FAQs
… information from the EZ Pass statement that I attach to my expense report? What information can I remove from a … dates, times) from business related receipts? If I return my rental car late at night, my receipt will be time-stamped the following day. Is this …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/travel/travel-faqsOpinion 88-14
… county's trust and agency fund for six years, subject to claim, and then transferred to the general fund. The county … have to pay them out upon audit and approval of a proper claim. While the conclusions reached in Opn No. 72-233 are … in part that, "any action, other than an action for injury to person or property, may be maintained by and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-14Opinion 90-60
… discussed in the opinion. REFUSE AND GARBAGE -- Solid Waste Facility (validity of installment purchase contract to … to enter into certain contracts and agreements for solid waste management, collection and disposal. Section 120-w(2) … operation, financing, ownership or maintenance of a solid waste management-resource recovery facility ... for a period …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-60Opinion 92-9
… as requiring a physical presence in a courtroom before a judge ( cf ., e.g., People v Thumser , 144 Misc 2d 425, 544 … without actually being present in a courtroom before a judge. In People ex rel Choate v Barrett , 56 Hun 351, 9 NYS … meeting at certain times and places for the hearing and decision of causes and other matters brought before it, and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-9Opinion 2002-2
… To implement that feature, a service award program may permit a participant to waive voluntarily the right to begin … award program, however, should not be structured so as to permit a participant to begin receiving payment of his or her … a service award program for volunteer firefighters may permit a participant to earn service credit after attaining …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2002-2-0Opinion 2002-2
… To implement that feature, a service award program may permit a participant to waive voluntarily the right to begin … award program, however, should not be structured so as to permit a participant to begin receiving payment of his or her … a service award program for volunteer firefighters may permit a participant to earn service credit after attaining …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2002-2Opinion 2000-6
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was … bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE TAXES -- Particular Uses (funding length of service … FIREFIGHTERS -- Service Award Program (use of foreign fire insurance taxes to fund) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW §§218, 219, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-6XI.16 Vendor Responsibility – XI. Procurement and Contract Management
… entities of their legal obligations with respect to determining the responsibility of a business entity (vendor, contractor or offerer) to which a contract may be awarded. This section also serves to outline the State Comptroller's procurement record … entities of their legal obligations with respect to determining the responsibility of a business entity vendor …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xi/xi16-vendor-responsibilityContinuing Crisis: Drug Overdose Deaths in New York
… drugs is a tragedy, depriving families of loved ones and damaging communities in countless ways. In October 2017, … for opioid analgesics (also known as prescription pain relievers, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone) and the … or dispensing any controlled substance, including opioid pain relievers, listed on Schedules II, III and IV of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/continuing-crisis-drug-overdose-deaths-new-york