My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: New York
I have a question regarding plans my employer has for reopening of a restaurant in NYS.
The plan is to call back his employees for 3 days of work a week averaging between 25 and 28 hours a week. This would effectively increase the workload of each employee (per day) by reducing the amount of time each employee has to complete their tasks (also due to a reduction in amount of staff )
The logic being that the employees will be able to retain partial unemployment benefits (including the $600 expanded benefit while in effect) while also saving the employer a significant amount on labor.
I was wondering if this is ethically or legally acceptable? Also what rights employees would have in this situation?

