Relates 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; requires employers to obtain acknowledgements from employees and keep such acknowledgements for six years.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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368
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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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 THEIR 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
THEIR 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 REQUIREMENTS
ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER WITH REGARD TO CONTENT AND FORM.
B. EVERY EMPLOYER SHALL NOTIFY THEIR EMPLOYEES IN WRITING OF ANY
CHANGES TO SUCH EMPLOYER'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION POLICY OR TO THE
INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THEIR SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAINING
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.
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