Relates to requiring employers to obtain an acknowledgement of receipt from employees of their sexual harassment prevention policy and sexual harassment prevention training program

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       (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