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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting retaliatory
   action by employers for the reporting of discrimination violations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor law, as added by
 chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 442
 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Prohibitions. An employer shall not take any retaliatory  personnel
 action against an employee because such employee does any of the follow-
 ing:
   (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,  OR  WHICH CONSTITUTES
 DISCRIMINATION IN VIOLATION OF ARTICLE FIFTEEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW;
   (b) provides information to, or  testifies  before,  any  public  body
 conducting  an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any such violation
 of a law, rule or regulation by such employer; [or]
   (c) objects to, or refuses to participate in any such activity, policy
 or practice in violation of a law, rule or regulation[.]; OR
   (D) FILES A COMPLAINT WITH SUCH EMPLOYER  ALLEGING  DISCRIMINATION  IN
 VIOLATION  OF ARTICLE FIFTEEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, OR FILES A COMPLAINT
 PURSUANT TO A POLICY ADOPTED OR ESTABLISHED BY SUCH EMPLOYER AS REQUIRED
 BY SECTION TWO HUNDRED ONE-G OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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