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Senate Bill S9208

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires employers and third-party websites, job boards, and recruitment platforms to remove inactive job postings within a certain timeframe

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2025-S9208 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9401
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §211-b, Lab L

2025-S9208 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires employers and third-party websites, job boards, and recruitment platforms to remove inactive job postings within a certain timeframe; authorizes the commissioner of labor to promulgate rules and regulations regarding such posting requirements and violations thereof.

2025-S9208 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9208 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9208
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  requiring  employers  and
   third-party  websites,  job boards and recruitment platforms to remove
   inactive job postings within a certain timeframe
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 211-b to
 read as follows:
   § 211-B. REMOVAL OF INACTIVE JOB POSTINGS. 1.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS
 SECTION, A JOB POSTING SHALL BE DEEMED INACTIVE WHEN:
   (A) THE EMPLOYER HAS FILLED THE POSITION;
   (B) THE EMPLOYER NO LONGER INTENDS TO HIRE FOR THE POSITION;
   (C)  THE  POSITION  HAS BEEN ELIMINATED OR FROZEN, OR FUNDING FOR SUCH
 POSITION HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN; OR
   (D) THE POSTING WAS PUBLISHED IN ERROR.
   2. AN EMPLOYER WHO PUBLICLY ADVERTISES A JOB POSTING SHALL REMOVE SUCH
 POSTING WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS AFTER THE POSTING NO LONGER  REPRESENTS  AN
 ACTIVE, BONA FIDE VACANCY.
   3.  WHERE  AN  EMPLOYER  UTILIZES A THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE, JOB BOARD, OR
 RECRUITMENT PLATFORM TO ADVERTISE A  JOB  POSTING,  THE  EMPLOYER  SHALL
 NOTIFY  SUCH  THIRD-PARTY  WITHIN SEVEN DAYS AFTER A JOB POSTING BECOMES
 INACTIVE AND SUCH THIRD-PARTY SHALL REMOVE THE POSTING WITHIN SEVEN DAYS
 OF RECEIVING SUCH NOTICE.
   4. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO PROHIBIT AN  EMPLOYER
 FROM MAINTAINING POSTINGS:
   (A) FOR POSITIONS WITH MULTIPLE VACANCIES;
   (B) FOR POSITIONS WITH ROLLING OR CONTINUOUS RECRUITMENT, PROVIDED THE
 EMPLOYER CLEARLY DISCLOSES SUCH STATUS IN THE POSTING; OR
   (C) REQUIRED BY LAW OR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS.
   5.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE THIS SECTION.
 UPON A FINDING THAT A  VIOLATION  OF  THIS  SECTION  HAS  OCCURRED,  THE
 COMMISSIONER MAY ISSUE:
   (A) AN ORDER DIRECTING REMOVAL OF THE INACTIVE POSTING;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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