Establishes penalties for threatening, penalizing, or in any other manner discriminating or retaliating against any employee, including but not limited to contacting United States immigration authorities or otherwise threatening to report an employee's suspected citizenship or immigration status.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5791
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- (at request of the Attorney General) -- 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 penalties for discrimi-
nation or retaliation against immigrant employees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 215 of the labor
2 law is amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to read as
3 follows:
4 As used in this section, to threaten, penalize, or in any other manner
5 discriminate or retaliate against any employee includes threatening to
6 contact or contacting United States immigration authorities or otherwise
7 reporting or threatening to report an employee's suspected citizenship
8 or immigration status or the suspected citizenship or immigration status
9 of an employee's family or household member, as defined in subdivision
10 two of section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law, to
11 a federal, state or local agency.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
16 on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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