Bill Text: NY A07909 | 2023-2024 | 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) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A07909 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07909-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7909

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          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  amended
     2  by chapter 522 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2.  Prohibitions.  An  employer  shall not take any retaliatory action
     4  against an employee, whether or not within the scope of  the  employee's
     5  job duties, because such employee does any of the following:
     6    (a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public
     7  body  an  activity, policy or practice of the employer that the employee
     8  reasonably believes is in violation of law, rule or regulation  or  that
     9  the employee reasonably believes poses a substantial and specific danger
    10  to  the  public health or safety, or which constitutes discrimination in
    11  violation of article fifteen of the executive law;
    12    (b) provides information to, or  testifies  before,  any  public  body
    13  conducting  an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any such activity,
    14  policy or practice by such employer; [or]
    15    (c) objects to, or refuses to participate in any such activity, policy
    16  or practice; or
    17    (d) files a complaint with such employer  alleging  discrimination  in
    18  violation  of article fifteen of the executive law, or files a complaint
    19  pursuant to a policy adopted or established by such employer as required
    20  by section two hundred one-g of this chapter.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09788-01-3