Assembly Bill A8421

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to increased protections for protected classes and special protections for employees who have been sexually harassed

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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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2019-A8421 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6577
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§292, 296, 296-b, 296-d, 297, 300 & 63, Exec L; amd §5-336, Gen Ob L; amd §§7515 & 5003-b, CPLR; amd §201-g, Lab L

2019-A8421 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides increased protections for protected classes and special protections for employees who have been sexually harassed; prohibits nondisclosure agreements related to discrimination; prohibits mandatory arbitration clauses related to discrimination; requires employers to provide employees notice of their sexual harassment prevention training program in writing in English and in employees' primary languages

2019-A8421 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8421
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, WRIGHT, ROZIC, WEINSTEIN, SIMON, CRUZ --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to increased protections
   for protected classes and special protections for employees  who  have
   been  sexually  harassed;  to  amend  the  general obligations law, in
   relation to nondisclosure agreements; to amend the civil practice  law
   and  rules  and  the  executive law, in relation to discrimination; to
   amend the labor law, in relation to  requiring  employers  to  provide
   employees  notice  of  their  sexual  harassment  prevention  training
   program in writing in English and in employees' primary languages;  to
   amend the executive law, in relation to extending the statute of limi-
   tations  for claim resulting from unlawful or discriminatory practices
   constituting sexual harassment to three years; to amend the labor law,
   in relation to the model sexual harassment prevention  guidance  docu-
   ment  and  sexual  harassment  prevention  policy;  and  directing the
   commissioner of labor to  conduct  a  study  on  strengthening  sexual
   harassment prevention laws

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section  292  of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  363  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5. The term "employer" [does not include any employer with fewer  than
 four  persons  in  his  or her employ except as set forth in section two
 hundred ninety-six-b of this article, provided,  however,  that  in  the
 case  of  an action for discrimination based on sex pursuant to subdivi-
 sion one of section two hundred ninety-six of this article, with respect
 to sexual harassment  only,  the  term  "employer"]  shall  include  all
 employers within the state, INCLUDING THE STATE AND ALL POLITICAL SUBDI-
 VISIONS THEREOF.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13425-01-9
              

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