STATE OF NEW YORK
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7909
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
July 19, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
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 amended
2 by chapter 522 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. Prohibitions. An employer shall not take any retaliatory action
4 against an employee, whether or not within the scope of the employee's
5 job duties, because such employee does any of the following:
6 (a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public
7 body an activity, policy or practice of the employer that the employee
8 reasonably believes is in violation of law, rule or regulation or that
9 the employee reasonably believes poses a substantial and specific danger
10 to the public health or safety, or which constitutes discrimination in
11 violation of article fifteen of the executive law;
12 (b) provides information to, or testifies before, any public body
13 conducting an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any such activity,
14 policy or practice by such employer; [or]
15 (c) objects to, or refuses to participate in any such activity, policy
16 or practice; or
17 (d) files a complaint with such employer alleging discrimination in
18 violation of article fifteen of the executive law, or files a complaint
19 pursuant to a policy adopted or established by such employer as required
20 by section two hundred one-g of this chapter.
21 § 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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