STATE OF NEW YORK
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4355
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 7, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 retaliatory personnel
action by employers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor
2 law, as added by chapter 522 of the laws of 2021, is amended and two new
3 paragraphs (d) and (e) are added to read as follows:
4 (c) objects to, or refuses to participate in any such activity, policy
5 or practice[.]; or
6 (d) complains to the employer or supervisor that wages have not been
7 paid according to the terms and conditions of employment; or
8 (e) institutes or plans on instituting a civil action as set forth in
9 subdivision four of this section.
10 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 5 of section 740 of the labor law,
11 as added by chapter 522 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
12 follows:
13 (e) the payment by the employer of reasonable costs, disbursements,
14 [and] attorney's fees and a fine of not less than five thousand dollars
15 nor more than ten thousand dollars;
16 § 3. 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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