N.Y. LAB Law § 604

§ 604. Eligibility conditions. A claimant shall be eligible for\nbenefits under this title if he or she works less than his or her normal\nhours in a week for his customary employer, and that employer has\nreduced or restricted the claimant's weekly hours of work, or has\nrehired a claimant previously laid off and reduced his or her weekly\nhours of work from those previously worked, as the result of a plan by\nthe employer to stabilize the work force by a program of sharing the\nwork remaining after a reduction in total hours of work and a\ncorresponding reduction in wages, provided the program requires not less\nthan a twenty percent nor more than a sixty percent reduction in hours\nand wages among the work force. A claimant receiving supplemental\nunemployment compensation benefits, as defined in section five hundred\none (c) (17) (D) of the internal revenue code of nineteen hundred\nfifty-four, shall not be eligible hereunder. Any employee who was\notherwise eligible for benefits under this title but was denied benefits\nduring the period beginning October first, two thousand one and ending\non December first, two thousand one because more than five percent of\nhis or her wages were derived from piece work, shall be entitled to make\na retroactive claim for such benefits provided such claim is filed\nwithin sixty days of the effective date of this sentence.\n