Bill Text: NY S04361 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to labor [S04361 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04361-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4361

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 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