NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4424A

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Jun 12, 2025	referred to labor delivered to assembly passed senate
Jun 04, 2025	amended on third reading 4424a
May 22, 2025	advanced to third reading
May 21, 2025	2nd report cal.
May 20, 2025	1st report cal.1192
Feb 04, 2025	referred to labor

Votes

- Jun 12, 2025 - Floor Vote
  S4424A
  
  46
  
  Aye
  
  13
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  4
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 12, 2025
      
      aye (46)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Ashby
      
      Bailey
      
      Baskin
      
      Brisport
      
      Brouk
      
      Bynoe
      
      Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick
      
      Cleare
      
      Comrie
      
      Cooney
      
      Fahy
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gonzalez
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Hinchey
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Krueger
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Martins
      
      Mattera
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Rivera
      
      Rolison
      
      Ryan
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Scarcella-Spanton
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Webb
      
      Weber
      
      nay (13)
      
      Borrello
      
      Chan
      
      Helming
      
      Lanza
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oberacker
      
      Ortt
      
      Palumbo
      
      Rhoads
      
      Stec
      
      Tedisco
      
      Walczyk
      
      Weik
      
      excused (4)
      
      Murray
      
      Myrie
      
      Ramos
      
      Sutton
      
      The following Member(s) participated via videoconferencing: Brouk
  May 20, 2025 - Labor Committee Vote
  S4424A
  
  10
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  3
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Labor Committee Vote: May 20, 2025
      
      aye (10)
      
      Fernandez
      
      Jackson
      
      Mattera
      
      Mayer
      
      Ramos
      
      Ryan
      
      Ryan
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Scarcella-Spanton
      
      Skoufis
      
      aye wr (3)
      
      Oberacker
      
      Rhoads
      
      Rolison

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

2025-S4424 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5411
Current Committee:: Assembly Labor
Law Section:: Labor Law
Laws Affected:: Add §219-e, Lab L; add §302, Exec L

2025-S4424 - Summary

Enacts the "anti-waiver of employment rights act" to invalidate any express or implied contractual provision waiving or otherwise limiting any employee's substantive or procedural rights, remedies, or claim.

2025-S4424 - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4424

SPONSOR: RAMOS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the labor law and the executive law, in relation to
enacting the "anti-waiver of employment rights act"

 
PURPOSE:

To reaffirm and clarify for the courts that the protections of the New
York Labor Law and the New York State Human Rights Law are mandatory and
non-waivable through private agreement.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This legislation amends the Labor Law and Human Rights Law by adding new
sections stating that pre-dispute contractual waivers or limits on an
employee's substantive or procedural rights, remedies, or claims under
these statutes are not valid, and that post-dispute waivers are also
invalid unless made in the context of a settlement of a bona fide
dispute or a severance agreement.

Section 1 States the bill's title, the "Anti-Waiver of Employment Rights
Act."

Section 2 Summarizes legislative findings.

Section 3 Amends Article 7 of the Labor Law by adding a new section
219-e stating that pre-dispute contractual waivers or limits on an
employee's substantive or procedural rights, remedies, or claims under
these statutes are not valid, and that post-dispute waivers are invalid
unless made in the context of a settlement of a bona fide dispute or a
severance agreement, except where the application of this section would
be preempted by federal law.

Section 4 Amends Article 15 of the Executive Law (i.e., the Human Rights
Law) by adding a new section 302 stating that pre-dispute contractual
waivers or limits on an employee's substantive or procedural rights,
remedies, or claims under these statutes are not valid, and that post-
dispute waivers are invalid unless made in the context of a settlement
of a bona fide dispute or a severance agreement, except where the appli-
cation of this section would be preempted by federal law.

This bill clarifies for the courts once and for all that the Labor Law
and the Human Rights Law's provisions are not waivable by private agree-
ment, and that such waivers have been and are henceforth invalid.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

TBD

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately

2025-S4424 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4424
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law and the  executive  law,  in  relation  to
   enacting the "anti-waiver of employment rights act"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "anti-waiver of employment rights act".
   §  2.  Legislative  findings  and intent. 1. The legislature finds and
 declares that it has always been its intention that the rights  provided
 under the labor law and the human rights law be mandatory and non-waiva-
 ble  through  private  agreement.  The  legislature  further  finds  and
 declares that it is the policy of this state that workers  be  permitted
 to enforce these rights collectively, including through article 9 of the
 civil  practice  law  and  rules. However, some courts have misconstrued
 these statutes as permitting waivers of these statutory rights.
   2. In light of these erroneous decisions, some  employers  have  taken
 advantage  of  these decisions to require employees to sign waivers that
 purport to contractually shorten their statute of limitations for bring-
 ing claims under the labor law or human rights law, or that  purport  to
 waive other rights that employees have under the labor law and the human
 rights  law,  as  well  as procedural mechanisms to enforce those rights
 collectively, such as article 9 of the civil  practice  law  and  rules.
 Such  purported  waivers  have  always  been  and continue to be against
 public policy.
   § 3. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 219-e to read as
 follows:
   § 219-E. WAIVER AGREEMENTS  VOID.  1.  WAIVERS  VOID.  NO  EXPRESS  OR
 IMPLIED  CONTRACTUAL PROVISION WAIVING OR OTHERWISE LIMITING ANY EMPLOY-
 EE'S SUBSTANTIVE OR  PROCEDURAL  RIGHTS,  REMEDIES,  OR  CLAIM,  WHETHER
 ASSERTED  OR  UNASSERTED  AND  WHETHER  LEGALLY  COGNIZABLE  OR  NOT, IN

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05321-01-5

 S. 4424                             2
 
 CONNECTION WITH THIS CHAPTER OR UNDER ANY EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT SHALL  BE
 VALID.  EXCEPTIONS TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL EXIST FOR SUCH WAIVERS THAT
 MAY BE MUTUALLY AGREED TO AND INCLUDED IN: (A)  THE  SETTLEMENT  OF  ANY
 GOOD FAITH BONA FIDE DISPUTE IN WHICH AN EMPLOYEE RAISES A CLAIM AGAINST
 THEIR EMPLOYER; OR
   (B)  AN  AGREEMENT  ENTERED  UPON  OR  FOLLOWING THE TERMINATION OF AN
 EMPLOYEE'S EMPLOYMENT. THE PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  NOT
 APPLY WHERE APPLICATION OF SUCH PROVISIONS WOULD BE PREEMPTED BY FEDERAL
 LAW.
   2.  SEVERABILITY. IF ANY CLAUSE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH OR SUBDIVISION OF
 THIS SECTION SHALL BE ADJUDGED BY ANY COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO
 BE INVALID, SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL NOT AFFECT, IMPAIR,  OR  INVALIDATE  THE
 REMAINDER THEREOF, BUT SHALL BE CONFINED IN ITS OPERATION TO THE CLAUSE,
 SENTENCE,  PARAGRAPH  OR  SUBDIVISION  THEREOF  DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE
 CONTROVERSY IN WHICH SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL HAVE BEEN RENDERED. IT IS HERE-
 BY DECLARED TO BE THE INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE THAT THIS SECTION  WOULD
 HAVE  BEEN ENACTED EVEN IF SUCH INVALID PROVISIONS HAD NOT BEEN INCLUDED
 HEREIN.
   3. EXISTING RIGHTS. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED TO  DIMIN-
 ISH  THE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, OR REMEDIES OF ANY EMPLOYEE UNDER ANY OTHER
 LAW OR REGULATION  OR  UNDER  ANY  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING  AGREEMENT  OR
 EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT.
   §  4. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 302 to read
 as follows:
   § 302. WAIVER AGREEMENT VOID. 1. WAIVERS VOID. NO EXPRESS  OR  IMPLIED
 CONTRACTUAL  PROVISION  WAIVING  OR  OTHERWISE  LIMITING  ANY EMPLOYEE'S
 SUBSTANTIVE OR PROCEDURAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES, OR CLAIM,  WHETHER  ASSERTED
 OR  UNASSERTED AND WHETHER LEGALLY COGNIZABLE OR NOT, IN CONNECTION WITH
 THIS  ARTICLE  OR  UNDER  ANY  EMPLOYMENT  AGREEMENT  SHALL  BE   VALID.
 EXCEPTIONS  TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL EXIST FOR SUCH WAIVERS THAT MAY BE
 MUTUALLY AGREED TO AND INCLUDED IN: (A) THE SETTLEMENT OF ANY GOOD FAITH
 BONA FIDE DISPUTE IN WHICH AN EMPLOYEE  RAISES  A  CLAIM  AGAINST  THEIR
 EMPLOYER; OR
   (B)  AN  AGREEMENT  ENTERED  UPON  OR  FOLLOWING THE TERMINATION OF AN
 EMPLOYEE'S EMPLOYMENT. THE PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  NOT
 APPLY WHERE APPLICATION OF SUCH PROVISIONS WOULD BE PREEMPTED BY FEDERAL
 LAW.
   2.  SEVERABILITY. IF ANY CLAUSE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH OR SUBDIVISION OF
 THIS SECTION SHALL BE ADJUDGED BY ANY COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO
 BE INVALID, SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL NOT AFFECT, IMPAIR,  OR  INVALIDATE  THE
 REMAINDER THEREOF, BUT SHALL BE CONFINED IN ITS OPERATION TO THE CLAUSE,
 SENTENCE,  PARAGRAPH  OR  SUBDIVISION  THEREOF  DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE
 CONTROVERSY IN WHICH SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL HAVE BEEN RENDERED. IT IS HERE-
 BY DECLARED TO BE THE INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE THAT THIS SECTION  WOULD
 HAVE  BEEN ENACTED EVEN IF SUCH INVALID PROVISIONS HAD NOT BEEN INCLUDED
 HEREIN.
   3. EXISTING RIGHTS. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED TO  DIMIN-
 ISH  THE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, OR REMEDIES OF ANY EMPLOYEE UNDER ANY OTHER
 LAW OR REGULATION  OR  UNDER  ANY  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING  AGREEMENT  OR
 EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

co-Sponsors

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5411
Current Committee:: Assembly Labor
Law Section:: Labor Law
Laws Affected:: Add §219-e, Lab L; add §302, Exec L

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4424A

SPONSOR: RAMOS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the labor law and the executive law, in relation to
enacting the "anti-waiver of employment rights act"

 
PURPOSE:

To reaffirm and clarify for the courts that the protections of the New
York Labor Law and the New York State Human Rights Law are mandatory and
non-waivable through private agreement.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This legislation amends the Labor Law and Human Rights Law by adding new
sections stating that pre-dispute contractual waivers or limits on an
employee's substantive or procedural rights, remedies, or claims under
these statutes are not valid, and that post-dispute waivers are also
invalid unless made in the context of a settlement of a bona fide
dispute or a severance agreement.

Section 1 States the bill's title, the "Anti-Waiver of Employment Rights
Act." Section 2 Summarizes legislative findings.

Section 3 Amends Article 7 of the Labor Law by adding a new section
219-e stating that pre-dispute contractual waivers or limits on an
employee's substantive or procedural rights, remedies, or claims under
these statutes are not valid, and that post-dispute waivers are invalid
unless made in the context of a settlement of a bona fide dispute or a
severance agreement, except where the application of this section would
be preempted by federal law.

Section 4 Amends Article 15 of the Executive Law by adding a new section
302 stating that pre-dispute contractual waivers or limits on an employ-
ee's substantive or procedural rights, remedies, or claims under these
statutes are not valid, and that post-dispute waivers are invalid unless
made in the context of a settlement of a bona fide dispute or a sever-
ance agreement, except where the application of this section would be
preempted by federal law.

Section 5 States that the Act shall take effect immediately.  The
A-print includes CBA carveout language to avoid nullifying CBA grievance
arbitration processes.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

It has always been the Legislature's intention that the rights provided
under the labor law and the human rights law be mandatory and non-waiva-
ble through private agreement, and that workers be permitted to enforce
these rights collectively, including through Article 9 of the Civil
Practice Law and Rules. However, some courts have misconstrued these
statutes as permitting waivers of these statutory rights.

Perhaps most egregiously, many courts have misconstrued these statutes
as permitting employers to shorten employees' statutes of limitations to
bring claims under the Labor Law and the Human Rights Law-even when such
provisions are included in employment applications and employees unques-
tionably have no opportunity to negotiate them. See, e.g., Hunt v. Raym-
our & Flanigan, 105 A.D.3d 1005 (App. Div. 2nd Dept. 2013) (enforcing
contract provision that limited statute of limitations to bring any
employment claim to six months, and dismissing State Human Rights Law
claims); Ortegas v. G4S Secure Sols. Inc., 65 N.Y.S.3d 693, 693 (App.
Div. 1st Dep't 2017) (same); Cayetano v. Fed. Express Corp., No. 19 Civ.
10619 (AT), 2022 WL 2467735, at *11-12 (S.D.N.Y. July 6, 2022) (same);
Keller v. About, Inc., No. 21-CV-228 (JMF), 2021 WL 1783522, at *3
(S.D.N.Y. May 5, 2021) (holding that shortening of statutes of limita-
tions was permissible for claims including those brought under the Labor
Law and Human Rights Law); Combs v. Same Day Delivery Inc., No.
1:22-cv-00520-MKV, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167954, at *22 (S.D.N.Y.  Sep.
20, 2023) (denying motion to modify arbitration award in which arbitra-
tor permitted shortening of statute of limitations for overtime claims
under the Labor Law). New York City recently amended its Human Rights
Law to prohibit such contractual provisions shortening statutes of limi-
tations for City Human Rights Law claims, in response to cases such as
these. See NYC Adrnin Code § 805(2)(d-1).

Courts have also misconstrued these statutes to permit employees to
waive their rights to enforce their rights collectively as part of a
class action-even when there is no arbitration provision that would
purport to require, from a federal law perspective, enforcement of that
waiver. See, e.g., Lee v. Insomnia Cookies LLC, No.  23-CV-6321-FPG,
2024 WL 1051954, at *5 (W.D.N.Y. Mar. 11, 2024) (enforcing class action
waiver and dismissing class action claims, without analyzing New York
Labor Law and citing only arbitration-related decisions, holding that "a
contractual proscription against class actions, such as contained in the
agreements, is neither unconscionable nor violative of public policy.").

This bill clarifies for the courts once and for all that the Labor Law
and the Human Rights Law's provisions are not waivable by private agree-
ment, and that such waivers have been and are henceforth invalid.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4424--A
     Cal. No. 1192
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- reported  favora-
   bly  from  said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered
   to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
   in the order of third reading

 AN ACT to amend the labor law and the  executive  law,  in  relation  to
   enacting the "anti-waiver of employment rights act"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "anti-waiver of employment rights act".
   §  2.  Legislative  findings  and intent. 1. The legislature finds and
 declares that it has always been its intention that the rights  provided
 under the labor law and the human rights law be mandatory and non-waiva-
 ble  through  private  agreement.  The  legislature  further  finds  and
 declares that it is the policy of this state that workers  be  permitted
 to enforce these rights collectively, including through article 9 of the
 civil  practice  law  and  rules. However, some courts have misconstrued
 these statutes as permitting waivers of these statutory rights.
   2. In light of these erroneous decisions, some  employers  have  taken
 advantage  of  these decisions to require employees to sign waivers that
 purport to contractually shorten their statute of limitations for bring-
 ing claims under the labor law or human rights law, or that  purport  to
 waive other rights that employees have under the labor law and the human
 rights  law,  as  well  as procedural mechanisms to enforce those rights
 collectively, such as article 9 of the civil  practice  law  and  rules.
 Such  purported  waivers  have  always  been  and continue to be against
 public policy.
   § 3. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 219-e to read as
 follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05321-04-5

 S. 4424--A                          2
 
   § 219-E. WAIVER AGREEMENTS  VOID.  1.  WAIVERS  VOID.  NO  EXPRESS  OR
 IMPLIED  CONTRACTUAL PROVISION WAIVING OR OTHERWISE LIMITING ANY EMPLOY-
 EE'S SUBSTANTIVE OR  PROCEDURAL  RIGHTS,  REMEDIES,  OR  CLAIM,  WHETHER
 ASSERTED  OR  UNASSERTED  AND  WHETHER  LEGALLY  COGNIZABLE  OR  NOT, IN
 CONNECTION  WITH THIS CHAPTER OR UNDER ANY EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT SHALL BE
 VALID. EXCEPTIONS TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL EXIST FOR SUCH WAIVERS  THAT
 MAY  BE  MUTUALLY  AGREED  TO AND INCLUDED IN: (A) THE SETTLEMENT OF ANY
 GOOD FAITH BONA FIDE DISPUTE NOT RAISED OR INITIATED BY AN EMPLOYER; OR
   (B) AN AGREEMENT ENTERED UPON  OR  FOLLOWING  THE  TERMINATION  OF  AN
 EMPLOYEE'S  EMPLOYMENT.  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT
 APPLY WHERE APPLICATION OF SUCH PROVISIONS WOULD BE PREEMPTED BY FEDERAL
 LAW.
   2. SEVERABILITY. IF ANY CLAUSE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH OR SUBDIVISION  OF
 THIS SECTION SHALL BE ADJUDGED BY ANY COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO
 BE  INVALID,  SUCH  JUDGMENT SHALL NOT AFFECT, IMPAIR, OR INVALIDATE THE
 REMAINDER THEREOF, BUT SHALL BE CONFINED IN ITS OPERATION TO THE CLAUSE,
 SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH OR SUBDIVISION  THEREOF  DIRECTLY  INVOLVED  IN  THE
 CONTROVERSY IN WHICH SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL HAVE BEEN RENDERED. IT IS HERE-
 BY  DECLARED TO BE THE INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE THAT THIS SECTION WOULD
 HAVE BEEN ENACTED EVEN IF SUCH INVALID PROVISIONS HAD NOT BEEN  INCLUDED
 HEREIN.
   3.  EXISTING  RIGHTS.  (A)  NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED TO
 DIMINISH THE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, OR REMEDIES OF ANY EMPLOYEE  UNDER  ANY
 OTHER  LAW OR REGULATION OR UNDER ANY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT OR
 EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT.
   (B) SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT  APPLY  TO  ANY  DISPUTE
 RESOLUTION  PROCESS  CONTAINED  IN  THE TERMS OF A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
 AGREEMENT, OR WHERE SUCH WAIVER IN A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT  IS
 EXPRESSLY  AUTHORIZED  IN  THE  STATUTE  ESTABLISHING THE SUBSTANTIVE OR
 PROCEDURAL RIGHT, PRIVILEGE, OR REMEDY.
   § 4. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 302 to  read
 as follows:
   §  302.  WAIVER AGREEMENT VOID. 1. WAIVERS VOID. NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
 CONTRACTUAL PROVISION  WAIVING  OR  OTHERWISE  LIMITING  ANY  EMPLOYEE'S
 SUBSTANTIVE  OR  PROCEDURAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES, OR CLAIM, WHETHER ASSERTED
 OR UNASSERTED AND WHETHER LEGALLY COGNIZABLE OR NOT, IN CONNECTION  WITH
 THIS   ARTICLE  OR  UNDER  ANY  EMPLOYMENT  AGREEMENT  SHALL  BE  VALID.
 EXCEPTIONS TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL EXIST FOR SUCH WAIVERS THAT MAY  BE
 MUTUALLY AGREED TO AND INCLUDED IN: (A) THE SETTLEMENT OF ANY GOOD FAITH
 BONA FIDE DISPUTE NOT RAISED OR INITIATED BY AN EMPLOYER; OR
   (B)  AN  AGREEMENT  ENTERED  UPON  OR  FOLLOWING THE TERMINATION OF AN
 EMPLOYEE'S EMPLOYMENT. THE PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  NOT
 APPLY WHERE APPLICATION OF SUCH PROVISIONS WOULD BE PREEMPTED BY FEDERAL
 LAW.
   2.  SEVERABILITY. IF ANY CLAUSE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH OR SUBDIVISION OF
 THIS SECTION SHALL BE ADJUDGED BY ANY COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO
 BE INVALID, SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL NOT AFFECT, IMPAIR,  OR  INVALIDATE  THE
 REMAINDER THEREOF, BUT SHALL BE CONFINED IN ITS OPERATION TO THE CLAUSE,
 SENTENCE,  PARAGRAPH  OR  SUBDIVISION  THEREOF  DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE
 CONTROVERSY IN WHICH SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL HAVE BEEN RENDERED. IT IS HERE-
 BY DECLARED TO BE THE INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE THAT THIS SECTION  WOULD
 HAVE  BEEN ENACTED EVEN IF SUCH INVALID PROVISIONS HAD NOT BEEN INCLUDED
 HEREIN.
   3. EXISTING RIGHTS. (A) NOTHING IN THIS SECTION  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  TO
 DIMINISH  THE  RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, OR REMEDIES OF ANY EMPLOYEE UNDER ANY
 S. 4424--A                          3
 
 OTHER LAW OR REGULATION OR UNDER ANY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT  OR
 EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT.
   (B)  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY DISPUTE
 RESOLUTION PROCESS CONTAINED IN THE TERMS  OF  A  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING
 AGREEMENT,  OR WHERE SUCH WAIVER IN A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT IS
 EXPRESSLY AUTHORIZED IN THE  STATUTE  ESTABLISHING  THE  SUBSTANTIVE  OR
 PROCEDURAL RIGHT, PRIVILEGE, OR REMEDY.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S4424A

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Jun 12, 2025 - Floor Vote

Floor Vote: Jun 12, 2025

May 20, 2025 - Labor Committee Vote

Labor Committee Vote: May 20, 2025

Bill Amendments

2025-S4424 - Details

2025-S4424 - Summary

2025-S4424 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4424 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

Comments

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Sponsored By

Jessica Ramos

Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Bill Amendments

2025-S4424 - Details

2025-S4424 - Summary

2025-S4424 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4424 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

Robert Jackson

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4424A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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