Includes information about bystander intervention training in the department of labor's model sexual harassment prevention policy that includes information and practical guidance on how to enable bystanders to recognize potentially problematic behaviors and to motivate bystanders to take action when such bystanders observe problematic behaviors.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4716
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. BIAGGI -- 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 bystander intervention
training
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 201-g of the labor
2 law, as added by section 1 of subpart E of part KK of chapter 57 of the
3 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. Such model sexual harassment prevention training program shall be
5 interactive and include: (i) an explanation of sexual harassment
6 consistent with guidance issued by the department in consultation with
7 the division of human rights; (ii) examples of conduct that would
8 constitute unlawful sexual harassment; (iii) information concerning the
9 federal and state statutory provisions concerning sexual harassment and
10 remedies available to victims of sexual harassment; [and] (iv) informa-
11 tion concerning employees' rights of redress and all available forums
12 for adjudicating complaints; and (v) bystander intervention training
13 that includes information and practical guidance on how to enable
14 bystanders to recognize potentially problematic behaviors and to moti-
15 vate such bystanders to take action when observing problematic
16 behaviors.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
18 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
19 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
20 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
21 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10257-01-9
