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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  requiring  employers  to
   obtain  an  acknowledgement  of receipt from employees of their sexual
   harassment prevention policy and sexual harassment prevention training
   program in writing in English and in employees' primary languages
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 201-g of the labor law is renum-
 bered subdivision 5 and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
   3. A. EACH TIME AN EMPLOYER  PROVIDES  THEIR  EMPLOYEES  WITH  WRITTEN
 NOTICE OF SUCH EMPLOYER'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION POLICY AND INFOR-
 MATION  PRESENTED AT SUCH EMPLOYER'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAIN-
 ING PROGRAM, THE EMPLOYER SHALL OBTAIN FROM THE EMPLOYEE  A  SIGNED  AND
 DATED WRITTEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, IN ENGLISH AND IN THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE OF
 THE  EMPLOYEE,  OF  RECEIPT  OF  THIS  NOTICE,  WHICH THE EMPLOYER SHALL
 PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN FOR SIX YEARS.  SUCH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SHALL INCLUDE
 AN AFFIRMATION BY THE EMPLOYEE THAT THE EMPLOYEE  ACCURATELY  IDENTIFIED
 THEIR  PRIMARY LANGUAGE TO THE EMPLOYER, AND THAT THE NOTICE PROVIDED BY
 THE EMPLOYER TO SUCH EMPLOYEE PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION  WAS  IN  THE
 LANGUAGE  SO  IDENTIFIED  OR  IF  SUCH  NOTICE IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE
 COMMISSIONER IN THE EMPLOYEE'S PRIMARY LANGUAGE,  WAS  PROVIDED  TO  THE
 EMPLOYEE  IN  ENGLISH,  AND SHALL CONFORM TO ANY ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
 ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER WITH REGARD TO CONTENT AND FORM.
   B. EVERY EMPLOYER SHALL NOTIFY  THEIR  EMPLOYEES  IN  WRITING  OF  ANY
 CHANGES TO SUCH EMPLOYER'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION POLICY OR TO THE
 INFORMATION  PRESENTED  IN  THEIR  SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAINING
 PROGRAM, AT LEAST SEVEN CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE TIME OF SUCH CHANGES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.  Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
              

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01378-01-5