STATE OF NEW YORK
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5268
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting retaliatory
action by employers for the reporting of discrimination violations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor law, as added by
2 chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 442
3 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
4 2. Prohibitions. An employer shall not take any retaliatory personnel
5 action against an employee because such employee does any of the follow-
6 ing:
7 (a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public
8 body an activity, policy or practice of the employer that is in
9 violation of law, rule or regulation which violation creates and
10 presents a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safe-
11 ty, or which constitutes health care fraud, or which constitutes
12 discrimination in violation of article fifteen of the executive law;
13 (b) provides information to, or testifies before, any public body
14 conducting an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any such violation
15 of a law, rule or regulation by such employer; [or]
16 (c) objects to, or refuses to participate in any such activity, policy
17 or practice in violation of a law, rule or regulation[.]; or
18 (d) files a complaint with such employer alleging discrimination in
19 violation of article fifteen of the executive law, or files a complaint
20 pursuant to a policy adopted or established by such employer as required
21 by section two hundred one-g of this chapter.
22 § 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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