Bill Text: NY S02035 | 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 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S02035 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02035-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2035--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 18, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BIAGGI, CARLUCCI, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, LIU, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee 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. LBD01540-03-9
