Establishes a claim for fraudulent inducement to enter into an employment relationship based on false promises as to wages, benefits, or intentions as to the duration of employment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a claim for
fraudulent inducement to enter into an employment relationship
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 198-f to
2 read as follows:
3 § 198-f. Fraudulent inducement prohibited. 1. No employer shall know-
4 ingly make any false or misleading statement regarding wages, benefits,
5 or wage supplements to any person with intent to induce such person into
6 entering or remaining in an employment relationship.
7 2. If any employee has been fraudulently induced by such employee's
8 employer to enter into or remain in an employment relationship, such
9 employee shall recover in a civil action all damages incurred in reli-
10 ance on such fraudulent inducement, together with costs and reasonable
11 attorney's fees, prejudgment interest as required under the civil prac-
12 tice law and rules, and an additional amount as liquidated damages equal
13 to one hundred percent of the total amount of such reliance damages.
14 § 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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