Bill Text: NY A10353 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires employers to notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who have been diagnosed in relation to a disease outbreak causing a public health emergency; prohibits employers from disclosing the name of the diagnosed employee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - REFERRED TO RULES [A10353 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10353-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10353

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  requiring  employers  to
          notify  employees  if  they come into contact with other employees who
          have been infected with a virus that is causing a public health  emer-
          gency

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

     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  202-n  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  202-n.  Public health emergencies; notification of contact.  When a
     4  federal, state, or local state of emergency has been declared due  to  a
     5  virus  causing  a  public  health  emergency  and  an  employee has been
     6  infected with the  virus  causing  such  public  health  emergency,  the
     7  employer  shall  notify  each  employee  who  has  had  contact with the
     8  infected employee; provided, however, that the employer shall not reveal
     9  the name of the infected employee; provided further, however, that  such
    10  notification  shall  be  provided  in  writing  in the employee's native
    11  language.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16144-02-0