| BILL NO | A07958 |
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| SAME AS | SAME AS S06426
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| SPONSOR | Joyner |
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| COSPNSR | Ortiz, Hevesi, Rozic, Bronson, Simon |
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| Add Art 33 §§960 - 963, Lab L |
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| Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an aggrieved employee or employees or a representative organization to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for any provision of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder, that provides for a civil penalty to be assessed and collected by the commissioner for a violation of the labor law. |