Bill Text: NY S02382 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for confronting an individual to prevent a theft or the unlawful taking of goods, wares, or merchandise; does not prohibit employers from training or re-training employees on policies against confrontation of theft.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S02382 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02382-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2382

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting employers from
          retaliating against employees for confronting an individual to prevent
          a theft or the unlawful taking of goods, wares, or merchandise

          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 215-d to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 215-d. Employee confrontation of theft; prohibited  retaliation.  1.
     4  No  employer or their agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation,
     5  partnership, or limited liability company, or  any  other  person  shall
     6  discharge,  threaten,  penalize,  or in any other manner discriminate or
     7  retaliate against  any  employee  because  such  employee  confronts  or
     8  attempts  to  confront  an individual to prevent a theft or the unlawful
     9  taking of goods, wares, or merchandise.
    10    2. As used in this section, to threaten, penalize,  or  in  any  other
    11  manner  discriminate  or  retaliate  against  any employee shall include
    12  reducing work hours, denying a promotion,  and/or  decreasing  pay,  but
    13  shall  not  include training or re-training on applicable employer poli-
    14  cies.
    15    3. Nothing in this section shall  require  an  employee  to  confront,
    16  prevent,  or attempt to prevent a theft or the unlawful taking of goods,
    17  wares, or merchandise of an employer, nor shall this section prevent  an
    18  employer  from instituting a policy advising employees against confront-
    19  ing, preventing, or attempting to prevent a theft or the unlawful taking
    20  of goods, wares, or merchandise of an employer.
    21    § 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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