Assembly Bill A7909

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting retaliatory action by employers for the reporting of discrimination violations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A7909 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §740, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11143
2019-2020: A1807
2021-2022: A5268

2023-A7909 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits retaliatory action by employers for the reporting of discrimination violations.

2023-A7909 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7909
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor law,  as  amended
 by chapter 522 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Prohibitions.  An  employer  shall not take any retaliatory action
 against an employee, whether or not within the scope of  the  employee's
 job duties, because such employee does any of the following:
   (a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public
 body  an  activity, policy or practice of the employer that the employee
 reasonably believes is in violation of law, rule or regulation  or  that
 the employee reasonably believes poses a substantial and specific danger
 to  the  public health or safety, OR WHICH CONSTITUTES DISCRIMINATION IN
 VIOLATION OF ARTICLE FIFTEEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW;
   (b) provides information to, or  testifies  before,  any  public  body
 conducting  an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any such activity,
 policy or practice by such employer; [or]
   (c) objects to, or refuses to participate in any such activity, policy
 or practice; OR
   (D) FILES A COMPLAINT WITH SUCH EMPLOYER  ALLEGING  DISCRIMINATION  IN
 VIOLATION  OF ARTICLE FIFTEEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, OR FILES A COMPLAINT
 PURSUANT TO A POLICY ADOPTED OR ESTABLISHED BY SUCH EMPLOYER AS REQUIRED
 BY SECTION TWO HUNDRED ONE-G OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09788-01-3

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