Bill Text: NY A11301 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the commissioner's duty to ensure employers inform workers about non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions in employment contracts.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-10-19 - print number 11301a [A11301 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A11301-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11301--A IN ASSEMBLY August 15, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simotas, Pellegrino, Ortiz, Dinowitz, Epstein, Stirpe, Mosley, Gottfried, Abinanti, D'Urso, Wallace, DenDekker, Errigo, Quart) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the commissioner's duty to ensure employers inform workers about certain provisions in employment 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 workers that non-disclo- 4 sure or non-disparagement provisions in their employment contracts 5 cannot prevent them from speaking with law enforcement, the equal 6 employment opportunity commission, the state division of human rights, 7 or a local commission on human rights. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13994-03-8