Prohibits the state from entering into certain contracts with companies requiring employees to stipulate to binding arbitration for all disputes unless it excludes disputes involving sexual assault.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6723
IN SENATE
February 1, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting the state
from entering into contracts with companies requiring employees to
stipulate to binding arbitration for all disputes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-c
2 to read as follows:
3 § 170-c. Prohibiting the state and certain state entities from enter-
4 ing into contracts with certain companies requiring employees to stipu-
5 late to binding arbitration agreements. 1. Notwithstanding any incon-
6 sistent provisions of any general or special law or resolution, neither
7 the state nor any state agency including: (i) any state department, or
8 (ii) any division, board, commission, or bureau of any state department,
9 or (iii) the state university of New York and the city university of New
10 York, including all their constituent units, except community colleges
11 and the independent institutions operating statutory or contract
12 colleges on behalf of the state, or (iv) a board, a majority of whose
13 members are appointed by the governor or who serve by virtue of being
14 state officers or employees as defined in subparagraph (i), (ii) or
15 (iii) of paragraph (i) of subdivision one of section seventy-three of
16 the public officers law, (v) any public authority, other than multi-
17 state authorities, public benefit corporations, and commissions at least
18 one of whose members is appointed by the governor, nor the legislative
19 and judicial branches of government, nor any fund of any of the forego-
20 ing, nor any officer of any of the foregoing, shall contract or renew a
21 contract for the supply of goods, services, or construction with any
22 overseas contractor who does not agree to stipulate to the following as
23 a material condition of the contract: the contractor, any subsidiary of
24 a contractor, any franchiser of the contractor, and any subcontractor to
25 be employed by the contractor shall not utilize an employment contract
26 containing clauses which require employees to stipulate to binding arbi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 tration agreements for all disputes unless disputes involving sexual
2 assault or other assault are excluded.
3 2. Any contractor, any subsidiary of a contractor, franchiser of the
4 contractor, and any subcontractor to be employed by the contractor shall
5 certify that it is in compliance with the requirements of this section.
6 Such certification shall be filed with the state governmental contract-
7 ing party and made a part of its contract file.
8 3. Upon receiving information that a contractor who has made the stip-
9 ulation and certification required by this section is in violation
10 thereof, the state governmental contracting party shall review such
11 information and offer the contractor an opportunity to respond. If the
12 state governmental contracting party finds that a violation has
13 occurred, it shall take such action as may be appropriate and provided
14 for by law, rule or regulation, or contract, including, but not limited
15 to, imposing sanctions, seeking compliance, recovering damages, declar-
16 ing the contractor in default, and seeking debarment or suspension of
17 the contractor.
18 § 2. If any provision of this act or the application thereof is held
19 invalid, the remainder of this act and the application thereof to other
20 persons or circumstances shall not be affected by such holding and shall
21 remain in full force and effect.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
