Bill Text: NY S01841 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1841 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires employers to submit an affirmative acknowledgement of implementing a sexual harassment prevention policy which meets or exceeds the minimum standards upon the completion of the employer's annual training or the training of a newly hired employee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S01841 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01841-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1841

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. SKOUFIS, BIAGGI, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, MYRIE -- 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 to
          submit an affirmative acknowledgement of implementing a sexual harass-
          ment prevention policy which meets or exceeds the minimum standards

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 201-g of the labor law, as added
     2  by section 1 of subpart E of part KK of chapter 57 of the laws of  2018,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  a.  The department shall consult with the division of human rights
     5  to create a system for every employer to affirmatively acknowledge  that
     6  the employer has met or exceeded the sexual harassment prevention policy
     7  minimum  standards  required by this section and the regulations promul-
     8  gated by the commissioner in accordance with this section.
     9    b. Each  employer  shall  submit  to  the  department  an  affirmative
    10  acknowledgement that the employer has met or exceeded the sexual harass-
    11  ment  prevention  policy  minimum standards required by this section and
    12  the regulations promulgated by the commissioner in accordance with  this
    13  section  upon  the completion of the employer's annual sexual harassment
    14  prevention training and upon the completion  of  the  sexual  harassment
    15  prevention  training  if  any  person  newly  hired by the employer. The
    16  employer shall use the system created by the department under  paragraph
    17  a  of  this  subdivision  to  submit  the  affirmative  acknowledgements
    18  required by this paragraph.
    19    4. The commissioner [may] shall promulgate regulations [as he  or  she
    20  deems necessary] for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this
    21  section.
    22    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04783-01-1