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                                   4925
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sens. RAMOS, BROUK, COONEY, JACKSON, RIVERA -- 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  requiring  training  to
   reduce abusive conduct and bullying in the workplace

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 3, 4, and 5 of section 27-b of the labor  law,
 as  added  by  chapter  82  of  the laws of 2006, are amended to read as
 follows:
   3. Risk evaluation and determination. Every  employer  shall  evaluate
 its  workplace  or  workplaces  to  determine the presence of factors or
 situations in such workplace or workplaces that might place employees at
 risk of occupational assaults and homicides. Examples  of  such  factors
 shall include, but not BE limited to:
   a.  working in public settings (e.g., social services or other govern-
 mental workers, police officers, firefighters, teachers,  public  trans-
 portation drivers, health care workers, and service workers);
   b. working late night or early morning hours;
   c. exchanging money with the public;
   d. working alone or in small numbers;
   e. ABUSIVE CONDUCT AND BULLYING IN THE WORKPLACE;
   F. uncontrolled access to the workplace; and
   [f.] G. areas of previous security problems.
   4.  Written workplace violence prevention program. Every employer with
 at least twenty full time permanent employees shall develop  and  imple-
 ment  a  written workplace violence prevention program for its workplace
 or workplaces that includes the following:
   a. a list of the risk factors identified in subdivision three of  this
 section that are present in such workplace or workplaces;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   b.  the  methods the employer will use to prevent incidents of occupa-
 tional assaults and homicides at such workplace or workplaces, including
 but not limited to the following:
   (1) making high-risk areas more visible to more people;
   (2) installing good external lighting;
   (3) using drop safes or other methods to minimize cash on hand;
   (4) posting signs stating that limited cash is on hand;
   (5)  providing training in conflict resolution and nonviolent self-de-
 fense responses; and
   (6) establishing and implementing reporting systems for  incidents  of
 aggressive behavior, ABUSIVE CONDUCT, AND BULLYING.
   5.  Employee information and training. a. Every employer with at least
 twenty permanent full time employees shall make  the  written  workplace
 violence  prevention  program available, upon request, to its employees,
 their designated representatives and the department.
   b. Every employer shall provide its  employees  with  [the  following]
 information  and training on PREVENTING AND REPORTING WORKPLACE BULLYING
 AND ABUSIVE CONDUCT AND the risks of occupational assaults and homicides
 in their workplace or workplaces at the time of their initial assignment
 and annually thereafter:
   (1) employees shall be informed of the requirements of  this  section,
 the  risk factors in their workplace or workplaces, and the location and
 availability  of  the  written  workplace  violence  prevention  program
 required by this section; and
   (2)  employee training shall include at least: (a) HOW HOW TO IDENTIFY
 AND REPORT WORKPLACE BULLYING  AND  ABUSIVE  CONDUCT  AND  the  measures
 employees  can  take  to  protect  themselves from such risks, including
 specific procedures the employer has implemented to  protect  employees,
 such as appropriate work practices, emergency procedures, use of securi-
 ty  alarms  and  other devices, and (b) the details of the written work-
 place violence prevention program developed by the employer.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.