New York A 368: Relates to requiring employers to obtain an acknowledgement of receipt from employees of their sexual harassment prevention policy and sexual harassment prevention training program

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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368--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
obtain an acknowledgement of receipt from employees of their sexual
harassment prevention policy and sexual harassment prevention training
program in writing in English and in employees' primary languages
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 is renum-
2 bered subdivision 5 and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
3 3. a. Each time an employer provides their employees with written
4 notice of such employer's sexual harassment prevention policy and infor-
5 mation presented at such employer's sexual harassment prevention train-
6 ing program, the employer shall obtain from the employee a signed and
7 dated electronic or written acknowledgement, in English and in the
8 primary language of the employee, of receipt of this notice, which the
9 employer shall preserve and maintain for six years. Such acknowledge-
10 ment shall include an affirmation by the employee that the employee
11 accurately identified their primary language to the employer, and that
12 the notice provided by the employer to such employee pursuant to this
13 subdivision was in the language so identified or if such notice is not
14 available from the commissioner in the employee's primary language, was
15 provided to the employee in English, and shall conform to any additional
16 requirements established by the commissioner with regard to content and
17 form.
18 b. Every employer shall notify their employees in writing of any
19 changes to such employer's sexual harassment prevention policy or to the
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 information presented in their sexual harassment prevention training
2 program, at least seven calendar days prior to the time of such changes.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
5 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
6 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
7 on or before such effective date.