Requires employers to submit an affirmative acknowledgement of implementing a sexual harassment prevention policy which meets or exceeds the minimum standards upon the completion of the employer's annual training or the training of a newly hired employee.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1841
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, BIAGGI, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, MYRIE -- 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 requiring employers to
submit an affirmative acknowledgement of implementing a sexual harass-
ment prevention policy which meets or exceeds the minimum standards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 201-g of the labor law, as added
2 by section 1 of subpart E of part KK of chapter 57 of the laws of 2018,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 3. a. The department shall consult with the division of human rights
5 to create a system for every employer to affirmatively acknowledge that
6 the employer has met or exceeded the sexual harassment prevention policy
7 minimum standards required by this section and the regulations promul-
8 gated by the commissioner in accordance with this section.
9 b. Each employer shall submit to the department an affirmative
10 acknowledgement that the employer has met or exceeded the sexual harass-
11 ment prevention policy minimum standards required by this section and
12 the regulations promulgated by the commissioner in accordance with this
13 section upon the completion of the employer's annual sexual harassment
14 prevention training and upon the completion of the sexual harassment
15 prevention training if any person newly hired by the employer. The
16 employer shall use the system created by the department under paragraph
17 a of this subdivision to submit the affirmative acknowledgements
18 required by this paragraph.
19 4. The commissioner [may] shall promulgate regulations [as he or she
20 deems necessary] for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this
21 section.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04783-01-1
