Bill Text: NY S04876 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring employers to obtain an acknowledgement of receipt from employees of their sexual harassment prevention policy and sexual harassment prevention training program in writing in English and in employees' primary languages; requires employers to obtain acknowledgements from employees and keep such acknowledgements for six years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S04876 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04876-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4876

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 17, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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  requiring  employers  to
          obtain  an  acknowledgement  of receipt from employees of their sexual
          harassment prevention policy and sexual harassment prevention training
          program in writing in English and in employees' primary languages

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 201-g of the labor law is renum-
     2  bered subdivision 5 and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
     3    3. a. Each time an employer provides his or her employees with written
     4  notice of such employer's sexual harassment prevention policy and infor-
     5  mation presented at such employer's sexual harassment prevention  train-
     6  ing  program,  the  employer shall obtain from the employee a signed and
     7  dated written acknowledgement, in English and in the primary language of
     8  the employee, of receipt  of  this  notice,  which  the  employer  shall
     9  preserve and maintain for six years.  Such acknowledgement shall include
    10  an  affirmation  by the employee that the employee accurately identified
    11  his or her primary  language  to  the  employer,  and  that  the  notice
    12  provided  by  the employer to such employee pursuant to this subdivision
    13  was in the language so identified or if such  notice  is  not  available
    14  from  the  commissioner in the employee's primary language, was provided
    15  to the employee in English, and shall conform to any additional require-
    16  ments established by the commissioner with regard to content and form.
    17    b. Every employer shall notify his or her employees in writing of  any
    18  changes  to  his  or  her  sexual harassment prevention policy or to the
    19  information presented in his or her sexual harassment prevention  train-
    20  ing  program,  at  least  seven  calendar days prior to the time of such
    21  changes.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    23  have become a law.  Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
    24  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    25  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    26  on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03357-01-1