New York Assembly Bill A00368 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 368 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor 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 written acknowledgement, in English and in the primary language of 8 the employee, of receipt of this notice, which the employer shall 9 preserve and maintain for six years. Such acknowledgement shall include 10 an affirmation by the employee that the employee accurately identified 11 their primary language to the employer, and that the notice provided by 12 the employer to such employee pursuant to this subdivision was in the 13 language so identified or if such notice is not available from the 14 commissioner in the employee's primary language, was provided to the 15 employee in English, and shall conform to any additional requirements 16 established by the commissioner with regard to content and form. 17 b. Every employer shall notify their employees in writing of any 18 changes to such employer's sexual harassment prevention policy or to the 19 information presented in their sexual harassment prevention training 20 program, at least seven calendar days prior to the time of such changes. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 22 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or 23 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 24 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 25 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01378-01-5