Bill Text: NY A06756 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6756

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the commissioner's duty to ensure employers inform employees about non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions in employment contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A06756 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06756-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6756

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the commissioner's duty to
          ensure employers inform employees about certain provisions in  employ-
          ment contracts

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 21 of the labor law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 16 to read as follows:
     3    16. Shall require employers to inform their employees that non-disclo-
     4  sure  or  non-disparagement  provisions in their employment contracts do
     5  not prohibit them from speaking with law enforcement, the equal  employ-
     6  ment opportunity commission, the state division of human rights, a local
     7  commission on human rights, or an attorney retained by the employee.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08596-01-3