Bill Text: NY A01807 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits retaliatory action by employers for the reporting of discrimination violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A01807 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01807-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1807
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor
        AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting retaliatory
          action by employers for the reporting of discrimination violations
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor law, as added by
     2  chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 442
     3  of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2. Prohibitions. An employer shall not take any retaliatory  personnel
     5  action against an employee because such employee does any of the follow-
     6  ing:
     7    (a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public
     8  body  an  activity,  policy  or  practice  of  the  employer  that is in
     9  violation of  law,  rule  or  regulation  which  violation  creates  and
    10  presents a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safe-
    11  ty,  or  which  constitutes  health  care  fraud,  or  which constitutes
    12  discrimination in violation of article fifteen of the executive law;
    13    (b) provides information to, or  testifies  before,  any  public  body
    14  conducting  an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any such violation
    15  of a law, rule or regulation by such employer; [or]
    16    (c) objects to, or refuses to participate in any such activity, policy
    17  or practice in violation of a law, rule or regulation[.]; or
    18    (d) files a complaint with such employer  alleging  discrimination  in
    19  violation  of article fifteen of the executive law, or files a complaint
    20  pursuant to a policy adopted or established by such employer as required
    21  by section two hundred one-g of this chapter.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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