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Assembly Bill A4455

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits certain retaliatory personnel action by employers

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2009-A4455 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S61
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง740, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S1617
2013-2014: S660
2015-2016: S4041

2009-A4455 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits retaliatory personnel action by an employer against an employee who discloses or threatens to disclose an activity, policy or practice of the employer or a fellow employee that is in violation of law; removes requirement that such violation of law present a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.

2009-A4455 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4455

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting certain retal-
  iatory personnel action by employers

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor
law, as amended by chapter 442 of the laws of 2006, is amended and a new
paragraph (a-1) is added to read as follows:
  (a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public
body an activity,  policy  or  practice  of  the  employer  that  is  in
violation  of  [law,]  rule  or  regulation  which violation creates and
presents a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safe-
ty, or which constitutes health care fraud;
  (A-1) DISCLOSES, OR THREATENS TO DISCLOSE TO  A  SUPERVISOR  OR  TO  A
PUBLIC  BODY  AN ACTIVITY, POLICY OR PRACTICE OF THE EMPLOYER OR ANOTHER
EMPLOYEE THAT IS IN VIOLATION OF LAW;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01973-01-9

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