If any amendment contained in a clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this title shall be adjudged by the United States Department of Labor to violate requirements for maintaining benefit standards required of the state in order to be eligible for any financial benefit offered through federal law or regulation including, but not limited to, the waiver of interest on advances or the waiver of obligations to repay such advances to the state unemployment insurance fund, such amendments shall be severed from this act and shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof
N.Y. Lab. Law § 612