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Jan 05, 2022 | referred to labor |
Jan 19, 2021 | referred to labor |
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Jeffrey Dinowitz
Deborah Glick
Kevin Cahill
Al Taylor
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William Magnarelli
Yuh-Line Niou
Jo Anne Simon
A2546 (ACTIVE) - Details
A2546 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2546 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 19, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, DINOWITZ, GLICK, CAHILL, TAYLOR, WOER- NER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MAGNARELLI, NIOU, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to retaliatory personnel actions 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 1 of section 740 of the labor law, as added by chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows: (a) "Employee" means an individual who performs services for and under the control and direction of an employer for wages or other remuneration OR NATURAL PERSONS EMPLOYED AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS TO CARRY OUT WORK IN FURTHERANCE OF AN EMPLOYER'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE WHO ARE NOT THEM- SELVES EMPLOYERS. § 2. The opening paragraph and paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor law, the opening paragraph as added by chapter 660 of the laws of 1984 and paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 442 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows: An employer shall not take any retaliatory personnel 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] WHICH THE EMPLOYEE REASONABLY BELIEVES is in violation of law, rule or regulation [which violation creates and presents] OR WHICH THE EMPLOYEE REASONABLY BELIEVES POSES a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safety, or which constitutes health care fraud; § 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 740 of the labor law, as added by chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.