Bill Text: NY S01617 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits retaliatory personnel action by an employer against an employee who discloses or threatens to disclose an activity, policy or practice of the employer or a fellow employee that is in violation of law; removes requirement that such violation of law present a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S01617 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S01617-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 10, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. SAMPSON -- 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 prohibiting certain retal-
iatory personnel action by employers
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 2 of section 740 of the labor
2 law, as amended by chapter 442 of the laws of 2006, is amended and a new
3 paragraph (a-1) is added to read as follows:
4 (a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public
5 body an activity, policy or practice of the employer that is in
6 violation of [law,] rule or regulation which violation creates and
7 presents a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safe-
8 ty, or which constitutes health care fraud;
9 (A-1) DISCLOSES, OR THREATENS TO DISCLOSE TO A SUPERVISOR OR TO A
10 PUBLIC BODY AN ACTIVITY, POLICY OR PRACTICE OF THE EMPLOYER OR ANOTHER
11 EMPLOYEE THAT IS IN VIOLATION OF LAW;
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05854-01-1
