Bill Text: NY S09381 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to employer violations of certain provisions allowing for workplace safety committees; allows the commissioner of labor to assess civil penalties and to seek additional relief for such violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S09381 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S09381-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9381

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 23, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- 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  employer  violations  of
          certain provisions allowing for workplace safety committees

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

     1    Section 1. Section 27-d of the labor law is amended by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  (a) If after investigation the commissioner finds that an employer
     4  has failed to comply with any provision of this section,  including  but
     5  not  limited  to  the  recognition  of a workplace safety committee, the
     6  commissioner may assess a civil penalty of not less  than  one  thousand
     7  dollars  but not to exceed ten thousand dollars. Provided, however, that
     8  if the commissioner finds that such employer has violated the provisions
     9  of this section previously in the preceding six years,  he  or  she  may
    10  assess  a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars but not to
    11  exceed twenty thousand dollars.
    12    (b) The commissioner may also order other appropriate relief including
    13  enjoining the conduct of any person or employer in addition to any other
    14  remedies permitted by this section.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15941-03-2
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