S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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513
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
obtain an acknowledgement of receipt from employees of their sexual
harassment prevention policy and sexual harassment prevention training
program in writing in English and in employees' primary languages
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 201-g of the labor law is renum-
bered subdivision 5 and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
3. A. EACH TIME AN EMPLOYER PROVIDES HIS OR HER EMPLOYEES WITH WRITTEN
NOTICE OF SUCH EMPLOYER'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION POLICY AND INFOR-
MATION PRESENTED AT SUCH EMPLOYER'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAIN-
ING PROGRAM, THE EMPLOYER SHALL OBTAIN FROM THE EMPLOYEE A SIGNED AND
DATED WRITTEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, IN ENGLISH AND IN THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE OF
THE EMPLOYEE, OF RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, WHICH THE EMPLOYER SHALL
PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN FOR SIX YEARS. SUCH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SHALL INCLUDE
AN AFFIRMATION BY THE EMPLOYEE THAT THE EMPLOYEE ACCURATELY IDENTIFIED
HIS OR HER PRIMARY LANGUAGE TO THE EMPLOYER, AND THAT THE NOTICE
PROVIDED BY THE EMPLOYER TO SUCH EMPLOYEE PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION
WAS IN THE LANGUAGE SO IDENTIFIED OR IF SUCH NOTICE IS NOT AVAILABLE
FROM THE COMMISSIONER IN THE EMPLOYEE'S PRIMARY LANGUAGE, WAS PROVIDED
TO THE EMPLOYEE IN ENGLISH, AND SHALL CONFORM TO ANY ADDITIONAL REQUIRE-
MENTS ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER WITH REGARD TO CONTENT AND FORM.
B. EVERY EMPLOYER SHALL NOTIFY HIS OR HER EMPLOYEES IN WRITING OF ANY
CHANGES TO HIS OR HER SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION POLICY OR TO THE
INFORMATION PRESENTED IN HIS OR HER SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAIN-
ING PROGRAM, AT LEAST SEVEN CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE TIME OF SUCH
CHANGES.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00547-01-3