Bill Text: NY A01115 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the commissioner's duty to ensure employers inform employees about non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions in employment contracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 65-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A01115 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01115-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1115--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, ORTIZ, DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, STIRPE, MOSLEY, GOTTFRIED, ABINANTI, D'URSO, WALLACE, QUART, PAULIN, SEAWRIGHT, LENTOL, CRUZ, M. G. MILLER, RA, THIELE, LUPARDO, BRAUN- STEIN, GALEF, CYMBROWITZ, SIMON, ZEBROWSKI, FERNANDEZ, MAGNARELLI, WRIGHT, CRESPO, NIOU, BUCHWALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the commissioner's duty to ensure employers inform employees about certain provisions in employ- ment contracts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 21 of the labor law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 16 to read as follows: 3 16. Shall require employers to inform their employees that non-disclo- 4 sure or non-disparagement provisions in their employment contracts do 5 not prohibit them from speaking with law enforcement, the equal employ- 6 ment opportunity commission, the state division of human rights, a local 7 commission on human rights, or an attorney retained by the employee. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01540-02-9
