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2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 5 - Hours of Labor › Title 1 - General › 169-A - One Day of Rest for State Employees.

§  169-a.  One  day of rest for state employees. No person employed by
  the state shall be required to work more than six days in  any  calendar
  week,  except in cases of fire, riot, flood, famine, pestilence or other
  cases of emergency endangering life or property; provided, however, that
  any such person, upon his own request and with the approval of the  head
  of  the  department  or  institution  in  which  he  is employed, may be
  permitted to work one additional day in any calendar week for  not  more
  than  seven calendar weeks and be allowed continuous days free from duty
  equivalent to the number of additional days so worked. No person  shall,
  by  reason  of  the provisions of this section, receive any reduction in
  the total weekly compensation paid him. This section shall not apply  to
  officers and members of the state police force.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 5 - Hours of Labor › Title 1 - General › 170 - Hours of Labor for Domestic Workers.

§  170.  Hours of labor for domestic workers. No person or corporation
  employing a domestic worker as defined in subdivision sixteen of section
  two of this chapter, shall require any domestic worker to work more than
  forty hours in a week, or  forty-four  hours  in  a  week  for  domestic
  workers  who  reside  in the home of their employer; unless they receive
  compensation for overtime work at a rate  which  is  at  least  one  and
  one-half times the worker's normal wage rate.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 190 - Definitions.

§ 190. Definitions. As used in this article:
1.  "Wages"  means  the  earnings of an employee for labor or services
  rendered, regardless of whether the amount of earnings is determined  on
  a time, piece, commission or other basis. The term "wages" also includes
  benefits   or  wage  supplements  as  defined  in  section  one  hundred
  ninety-eight-c of this article, except for the purposes of sections  one
  hundred ninety-one and one hundred ninety-two of this article.
2. "Employee" means any person employed for hire by an employer in any
  employment.
3.  "Employer"  includes  any  person,  corporation, limited liability
  company, or association employing  any  individual  in  any  occupation,
  industry,  trade,  business  or  service.  The term "employer" shall not
  include a governmental agency.
4. "Manual worker" means a mechanic, workingman or laborer.
5. "Railroad worker" means any person  employed  by  an  employer  who
  operates  a  steam, electric or diesel surface railroad or is engaged in
  the sleeping car business. The term "railroad worker" shall not  include
  a person employed in an executive capacity.
6.  "Commission  salesman" means any employee whose principal activity
  is the selling of any goods, wares, merchandise, services, real  estate,
  securities,  insurance  or  any  article or thing and whose earnings are
  based in whole or in part on commissions. The term "commission salesman"
  does  not  include  an  employee  whose  principal  activity  is  of   a
  supervisory, managerial, executive or administrative nature.
7.  "Clerical and other worker" includes all employees not included in
  subdivisions four, five and six  of  this  section,  except  any  person
  employed  in  a  bona  fide  executive,  administrative  or professional
  capacity whose earnings are in excess  of  one  thousand  three  hundred
  dollars a week.
8.  "Week"  means  a  calendar week or a regularly established payroll
  week.  "Month" means a calendar month or a regularly established  fiscal
  month.
9. "Non-profitmaking organization" means a corporation, unincorporated
  association,  community chest, fund or foundation organized and operated
  exclusively for religious, charitable or educational purposes,  no  part
  of  the  net  earnings  of  which  inure  to  the benefit of any private
  shareholder or individual.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 191-A - Definitions.

§ 191-a. Definitions. For purposes of this article the term:
(a) "Commission" means compensation accruing to a sales representative
for  payment  by  a  principal,  the  rate  of  which  is expressed as a
percentage of the dollar amount of wholesale orders or sales.
(b) "Earned  commission"  means  a  commission  due  for  services  or
merchandise  which  is  due  according  to  the  terms  of an applicable
contract or, when  there  is  no  applicable  contractual  provision,  a
commission  due  for  merchandise  which has actually been delivered to,
accepted by, and paid for by  the  customer,  notwithstanding  that  the
sales representative's services may have terminated.
(c)  "Principal"  means a person or company engaged in the business of
manufacturing, and who:
(1) Manufactures, produces, imports,  or  distributes  a  product  for
wholesale;
(2)  Contracts  with  a sales representative to solicit orders for the
product; and
(3) Compensates the sales  representative  in  whole  or  in  part  by
commissions.
(d)  "Sales  representative"  means  a  person  or entity who solicits
orders in New York state and  is  not  covered  by  subdivision  six  of
section  one  hundred  ninety  and  paragraph  (c) of subdivision one of
section one hundred ninety-one of this article because he or she  is  an
independent  contractor,  but does not include one who places orders for
his own account for resale.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 191-B - Contracts With Sales Representatives.

§  191-b.  Contracts  with  sales representatives. 1. When a principal
  contracts with a sales representative to solicit wholesale orders within
  this state, the contract shall be in writing and  shall  set  forth  the
  method by which the commission is to be computed and paid.
2. The principal shall provide each sales representative with a signed
  copy  of  the contract.  The principal shall obtain a signed receipt for
  the contract from each sales representative.
3. A sales representative during the course of the contract, shall  be
  paid  the  earned  commission  and all other monies earned or payable in
  accordance with the agreed terms of the contract,  but  not  later  than
  five business days after the commission has become earned.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 191-C - Payment of Sales Commission.

§  191-c.  Payment  of  sales commission. 1. When a contract between a
  principal  and  a  sales  representative  is  terminated,   all   earned
  commissions shall be paid within five business days after termination or
  within  five  business  days after they become due in the case of earned
  commissions not due when the contract is terminated.
2. The earned commission shall be paid to the sales representative  at
  the usual place of payment unless the sales representative requests that
  the  commission  be  sent  to  him  or  her  through  the  mails. If the
  commissions are sent to the sales representative  by  mail,  the  earned
  commissions  shall  be  deemed to have been paid as of the date of their
  postmark for purposes of this section.
3. A principal who fails to comply with the provisions of this section
  concerning timely payment of all earned commissions shall be  liable  to
  the  sales  representative  in  a  civil  action for double damages. The
  prevailing party in any such action shall be entitled  to  an  award  of
  reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, and disbursements.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 192 - Cash Payment of Wages.

§ 192. Cash payment of wages. 1. No employer shall without the advance
  written  consent of any employee directly pay or deposit the net wage or
  salary of such employee in a bank or other financial institution.
2. This section shall not apply to any person employed in a bona  fide
  executive,  administrative,  or professional capacity whose earnings are
  in excess of one thousand three hundred dollars a week, nor to employees
  working on a farm not connected with a factory.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 196-A - Complaints by Employees to Commissioner.

§  196-a.  Complaints  by employees to commissioner. (a) Any employee;
person  or  organization  acting  on  the  employee's  behalf;  or   the
recognized  and  certified  collective  bargaining  agent  acting on the
employee's behalf, may file with the commissioner a complaint  regarding
a   violation  of  this  article,  article  five,  seven,  nineteen,  or
nineteen-A of this chapter for an investigation of  such  complaint  and
statement setting the appropriate remedy, if any. The commissioner shall
keep  the  names  of  employees that are the subject of an investigation
confidential until such time that disclosure is necessary for resolution
of an investigation or a complaint.  Failure  of  an  employer  to  keep
adequate records or provide statements of wages to employees as required
under  this  chapter, in addition to exposing such employer to penalties
authorized under subdivision one of section two hundred eighteen of this
chapter, shall not operate as a bar to  filing  of  a  complaint  by  an
employee. In such a case the employer in violation shall bear the burden
of  proving  that  the complaining employee was paid wages, benefits and
wage supplements.
(b)  Any  employee,  or  the  recognized  and   certified   collective
bargaining  agent  acting  on  the employee's behalf, contractor, or the
recognized and certified labor organization with  which  the  contractor
has  executed a collective bargaining agreement covering wages, benefits
and supplements, may file with the commissioner a complaint regarding an
alleged violation of this article or article nineteen  of  this  chapter
occasioned  by  another  person,  corporation,  employer  or entities in
violation of article thirty-five-E of the general business  law  for  an
investigation  of  such  complaint and statement setting the appropriate
remedy, if any.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 196-D - Gratuities.

§  196-d.  Gratuities. No employer or his agent or an officer or agent
  of any corporation, or any other person shall demand or accept, directly
  or indirectly, any part of the gratuities, received by an  employee,  or
  retain  any  part  of  a  gratuity  or  of  any charge purported to be a
  gratuity for an employee. This provision shall not apply to the checking
  of hats, coats or other apparel. Nothing in this  subdivision  shall  be
  construed  as  affecting  the  allowances  from  the  minimum  wage  for
  gratuities in the amount determined in accordance with the provisions of
  article  nineteen  of  this  chapter  nor  as  affecting  practices   in
  connection  with  banquets  and  other  special  functions where a fixed
  percentage of the patron's  bill  is  added  for  gratuities  which  are
  distributed  to employees, nor to the sharing of tips by a waiter with a
  busboy or similar employee.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 197 - Civil Penalty.

§  197.  Civil penalty. Any employer who fails to pay the wages of his
  employees or shall differentiate in rate of  pay  because  of  protected
  class  status,  as provided in this article, shall forfeit to the people
  of the state the sum of five hundred dollars for each such  failure,  to
  be  recovered  by  the  commissioner  in  any  legal  action  necessary,
  including administrative action or a civil action.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 198-A - Criminal Penalties.

§  198-a.  Criminal  penalties. 1. Every employer who does not pay the
  wages of all of his employees in accordance with the provisions of  this
  chapter, and the officers and agents of any corporation, partnership, or
  limited   liability   company  who  knowingly  permit  the  corporation,
  partnership, or limited liability company to  violate  this  chapter  by
  failing  to pay the wages of any of its employees in accordance with the
  provisions thereof, shall be guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  for  the  first
  offense  and  upon conviction therefor shall be fined not less than five
  hundred nor more than twenty thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more
  than one year, and, in the event that any second or  subsequent  offense
  occurs  within  six years of the date of conviction for a prior offense,
  shall be guilty of a felony for the second or  subsequent  offense,  and
  upon  conviction therefor, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor
  more than twenty thousand dollars or imprisoned for not  more  than  one
  year  plus  one day, or punished by both such fine and imprisonment, for
  each such offense. An indictment of a person or corporation operating  a
  steam  surface  railroad for an offense specified in this section may be
  found and tried in any county within the state in  which  such  railroad
  ran at the time of such offense.
2.   Every   employer  who  violates  or  fails  to  comply  with  the
  requirements of subdivision four of section one hundred  ninety-five  of
  this   article,   and  the  officers  and  agents  of  any  corporation,
  partnership, or limited  liability  company  who  knowingly  permit  the
  corporation,  partnership,  or  limited  liability company to violate or
  fail to comply therewith, shall be guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon
  conviction  therefor  shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more
  than five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year.
3. Every employer who knowingly violates or fails to comply  with  the
  requirements  of  subdivision four of section one hundred ninety-five of
  this  article,  and  the  officers  and  agents  of   any   corporation,
  partnership,  or  limited  liability  company  who  knowingly permit the
  corporation, partnership, or limited liability  company  to  violate  or
  fail  to  comply  therewith,  shall  be  guilty  of  a felony where such
  employer, officer or agent has been convicted of  a  violation  of  such
  subdivision  within the previous six years, and upon conviction therefor
  shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than twenty  thousand
  dollars  or  imprisoned  for  not  more  than  one year plus one day, or
  punished by both such fine and imprisonment, for each such  offense.  In
  determining  the  penalty,  the court shall consider the severity of the
  violation, the size of the  employer,  and  the  employer's  good  faith
  effort  to  comply  with the requirements of subdivision four of section
  one hundred ninety-five of this article.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 198-B - "Kick-Back" of Wages Prohibited.

§  198-b. "Kick-back" of wages prohibited. 1. As used in this section,
  the term "person" shall  include  any  firm,  partnership,  association,
  corporation or group of persons.
2.  Whenever  any  employee  who  is engaged to perform labor shall be
  promised an agreed rate of wages  for  his  or  her  services,  be  such
  promise  in writing or oral, or shall be entitled to be paid or provided
  prevailing wages or supplements pursuant to article  eight  or  nine  of
  this  chapter,  it  shall  be  unlawful  for any person, either for that
  person or any other person,  to  request,  demand,  or  receive,  either
  before  or  after  such  employee  is  engaged,  a  return,  donation or
  contribution of any part  or  all  of  said  employee's  wages,  salary,
  supplements,   or   other   thing   of   value,   upon   the  statement,
  representation, or  understanding  that  failure  to  comply  with  such
  request or demand will prevent such employee from procuring or retaining
  employment.  Further,  any  person  who  directly  or  indirectly  aids,
  requests or authorizes any other person to violate any of the provisions
  of this section shall be guilty of a violation of the provisions of this
  section.
3. Whenever an agreement between a bona fide labor organization and an
  employer or an association of employers requires that employees shall be
  paid an agreed wage or rate of wages for their  services,  it  shall  be
  unlawful  for any person, either for that person or any other person, to
  request, demand or receive, either before  or  after  such  employee  is
  engaged, that such employee pay back, return, donate, contribute or give
  any  part  or all of said employee's wages, salary, supplements or thing
  of  value,  to  any  person,  upon  the  statement,  representation   or
  understanding  that  failure to comply with such requests or demand will
  prevent such employee from procuring or retaining  employment,  and  any
  person who directly or indirectly aids, requests or authorizes any other
  person  to violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty
  of a violation of the provisions of this section.
4. The provisions of this section shall not  apply  to  any  agent  or
  representative  of  a  duly constituted labor organization acting in the
  collection of dues or assessments of such organization.
5. A violation of the provisions of this section  shall  constitute  a
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 198-C - Benefits or Wage Supplements.

§  198-c.  Benefits  or  wage supplements. 1. In addition to any other
  penalty or punishment otherwise prescribed by law, any employer  who  is
  party  to an agreement to pay or provide benefits or wage supplements to
  employees or to a third party or fund for the benefit of  employees  and
  who fails, neglects or refuses to pay the amount or amounts necessary to
  provide  such  benefits  or  furnish such supplements within thirty days
  after such payments are required to  be  made,  shall  be  guilty  of  a
  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  shall  be  punished  as provided in
  section one hundred ninety-eight-a of this article. Where such  employer
  is  a  corporation,  the  president,  secretary,  treasurer  or officers
  exercising  corresponding  functions  shall  each   be   guilty   of   a
  misdemeanor.
2.  As  used  in this section, the term "benefits or wage supplements"
  includes, but is not limited to,  reimbursement  for  expenses;  health,
  welfare  and  retirement  benefits;  and vacation, separation or holiday
  pay.
3. This section  shall  not  apply  to  any  person  in  a  bona  fide
  executive,  administrative,  or professional capacity whose earnings are
  in excess of one thousand three hundred dollars a week.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 198-D - Posting Regulations on Illegal Wage Deductions.

§  198-d.  Posting  regulations  on  illegal  wage  deductions.  Every
  employer engaged in the sale or service of food or beverages shall  post
  in  his  establishment,  in a place accessible to his employees and in a
  visually conspicuous manner, a copy of sections one hundred ninety-three
  and one  hundred  ninety-six-d  of  this  chapter  and  any  regulations
  promulgated  pursuant  thereto relating to illegal deductions from wages
  and tips by employers.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 6 - Payment of Wages › 199-A - Notification of Process.

§  199-a.  Notification  of  process.  1.  Each  employee  who files a
  complaint regarding a violation of a provision of this article  (payment
  of  wages),  article  nineteen (minimum wage act), or article nineteen-A
  (minimum  wage  standards  and  protective  labor  practices  for   farm
  workers),  section one hundred sixty-one, section one hundred sixty-two,
  section two hundred twelve-a, section two hundred twelve-b,  or  section
  two hundred fifteen of this chapter, or a rule or regulation promulgated
  thereunder,  shall  be  provided  with  a  written  description  of  the
  anticipated processing of the complaint, including  investigation,  case
  conference,  potential  civil  and  criminal  penalties,  and collection
  procedures.
2. Each employee and his or her  authorized  representative  shall  be
  notified  in  writing of any case conference before it is held and given
  the opportunity to attend.
3. Each employee and his or her  authorized  representative  shall  be
  notified  in writing of any award and collection of back wages and civil
  penalties, and of any intent to seek criminal penalties.  In  the  event
  that  criminal  penalties  are  sought  the  employee  and  his  or  her
  authorized  representative  shall  be  notified  of   the   outcome   of
  prosecution.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 200-A - Laws to Be Posted at Airports.

§  200-a.  Laws  to  be  posted at airports. An airport, as defined in
  section two hundred forty of the general business law, shall permanently
  and prominently  post  signs  indicating  the  increased  penalties  for
  interference  with  security  personnel  under  49 USC 46503. Such signs
  shall state an individual in an area within a commercial service airport
  in the United States who,  by  assaulting  or  intimidating  a  federal,
  airport,  or  air  carrier  employee  who has security duties within the
  airport, interferes with the performance of the duties of  the  employee
  or lessens the ability of the employee to perform those duties, shall be
  fined  under title 18 of the United States code, imprisoned for not more
  than ten years, or both. If the individual used a  dangerous  weapon  in
  committing  the  assault,  intimidation, or interference, the individual
  may be imprisoned for any term of years or  life  imprisonment.  Signage
  shall  include  the  telephone  numbers of local law enforcement and the
  Transportation Security Administration for the purpose  of  reporting  a
  violation.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 201 - Laws and Orders to Be Posted.

§ 201. Laws and orders to be posted. Wherever persons are employed who
  are  affected  by  the  provisions  of this chapter or of the industrial
  code, the commissioner shall furnish to the employer copies or abstracts
  of such provisions, rules and orders as he may deem necessary  affecting
  such  persons.  The copies or abstracts shall be in such language as the
  commissioner may require and shall be kept posted by the employer  in  a
  conspicuous  place  on  each  floor of the premises. Digital versions of
  such copies and abstracts shall  also  be  made  available  through  the
  employer's  website  or  by  email.  Employers shall provide notice that
  documents   required   for   physical   posting   are   also   available
  electronically.  All other documents required to be physically posted at
  a worksite pursuant to state or federal law or regulation shall also  be
  made  electronically  available in the manner described pursuant to this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 201-A - Fingerprinting of Employees Prohibited.

§  201-a.  Fingerprinting of employees prohibited. Except as otherwise
  provided by law, no person, as a condition of securing employment or  of
  continuing  employment,  shall  be  required  to  be fingerprinted. This
  provision shall not apply to employees of the  state  or  any  municipal
  subdivisions  or  departments  thereof,  or  to the employees of legally
  incorporated hospitals, supported in whole or in part by public funds or
  private endowment, or to the employees of  medical  colleges  affiliated
  with such hospitals or to employees of private proprietary hospitals.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 201-B - Fees for Medical Examination.

§ 201-b. Fees for medical examination. 1. It shall be unlawful for any
  employer  to  require  any applicant for employment to pay the cost of a
  medical examination required by the employer as a condition of  original
  employment.
2.  It shall be unlawful for any employer to require an employee, as a
  condition of continuation of employment, to pay the cost of any  medical
  examination  or  the  cost of furnishing any health certificate relating
  thereto where:
a. such employee is not covered by health insurance or the  employee's
  health  insurance  does not cover such examination or certificate or the
  employer does not provide qualified medical personnel  to  conduct  such
  examination without cost to the employee; and
b. such examination or certificate is not required pursuant to a state
  or federal statute or municipal ordinance or local law.
3.  The term "employer" as used in this section shall mean and include
  an individual, a partnership, an association,  a  corporation,  a  legal
  representative, trustee, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, and any common
  carrier  by rail, motor, water, air or express company doing business in
  or operating within the state.
4. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the parties to a collective
  bargaining agreement from inserting therein a provision requiring:
a. an applicant for employment to pay, in the first instance, the cost
  of such medical examination provided  that  such  collective  bargaining
  agreement  also  provides for the repayment of such cost by the employer
  to the applicant after a reasonable period of employment; and
b. an employee  who  is  otherwise  protected  by  the  provisions  of
  subdivision  two  of this section, to pay in the first instance the cost
  of such medical examination or  of  furnishing  the  health  certificate
  provided that such collective bargaining agreement also provides for the
  repayment  of  such  cost  by  the  employer  to  the  employee within a
  reasonable time.
5. Any employer who violates the provisions of this section  shall  be
  liable  to  a penalty of not more than fifty dollars for each violation.
  It shall be the duty of the department of labor to enforce this section.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 201-C - Discrimination in Child-Care Leave Prohibited.

§ 201-c. Discrimination in child-care leave prohibited. 1. Whenever an
  employer  or  governmental agency permits an employee to take a leave of
  absence upon the birth of such employee's  child,  an  adoptive  parent,
  following  the  commencement  of the parent-child relationship, shall be
  entitled to the same leave and upon the same terms;  provided,  however,
  that  the adoptive parent shall not be entitled to such equal child care
  leave, or any portion thereof, at any  time  after  the  adoptive  child
  reaches  the  minimum  age set forth in subdivision one of section three
  thousand two hundred two of the education law for attendance  in  public
  school without the payment of tuition. With respect to the adoption of a
  hard-to-place  or  handicapped  child as defined in section four hundred
  fifty-one of the social services law who is under the age  of  eighteen,
  an   adoptive   parent,   following  commencement  of  the  parent-child
  relationship, shall be entitled to such leave of absence.
2. For purposes of this section,  "commencement  of  the  parent-child
  relationship" shall mean:
a. When the adoption occurs under sponsorship of an authorized agency,
  as  defined  in  subdivision ten of section three hundred seventy-one of
  the social services law, the date the child is placed by the  authorized
  agency  in  the  home  of the adoptive parents pursuant to section three
  hundred eighty-four of the social services law.
b. When the adoption occurs without the sponsorship of  an  authorized
  agency,  the  date  a petition for the adoption of a child residing with
  the adoptive parents is filed in a court.
3. In addition to any other penalties or actions otherwise  applicable
  pursuant  to  this  chapter, whenever an employer or governmental agency
  has refused to extend available child-care leave to an  adoptive  parent
  in  violation  of  this section, an aggrieved individual may commence an
  action for equitable relief and damages. In all actions brought pursuant
  to this section, reasonable attorney's  fees,  as  determined    by  the
  court, shall be awarded to the prevailing plaintiff.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 201-E - Maintenance of Employee-Patient Records at Occupational Health Service Centers.

§  201-e.  Maintenance  of  employee-patient  records  at occupational
  health service centers. No person charged with the custody and  care  of
  the health records of employees treated at an on-site employer sponsored
  occupational  health  service  facility  shall  release  or disclose any
  employee-patient  record  to  an  employer,  except  upon  the   express
  authorization  of  the  employee-patient,  or as otherwise authorized by
  law.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 201-F - Posting Regulations on Employment of Persons Previously Convicted of One or More Crimes.

§  201-f.  Posting  regulations  on  employment  of persons previously
  convicted of one or more crimes. Every employer shall post in his or her
  establishment, in a place accessible to his or her employees  and  in  a
  visually  conspicuous  manner,  a  copy of article twenty-three-A of the
  correction law and any regulations promulgated pursuant thereto relating
  to the licensure and employment of persons previously convicted  of  one
  or more criminal offenses.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 201-H - Posting of Veterans' Benefits and Services.

§ 201-h. Posting of veterans' benefits and services. 1. The department
  shall  consult  with  the  division  of veterans' services to create and
  distribute a veterans' benefits and services poster.
2. Such poster shall, at a minimum, include information regarding  the
  following services available to veterans:
a.  contact  and  website  information  for  the division of veterans'
  services and the department's veterans' program;
b. substance abuse and mental health treatment;
c. educational, workforce, and training resources;
d. tax benefits;
e.  New  York  state  veteran   drivers'   licenses   and   non-driver
  identification cards;
f.  eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits under state and/or
  federal law;
g. legal services; and
h. contact information for the U.S.  Department  of  Veterans  Affairs
  Veterans Crisis Line.
3.  Every  employer  in  the  state  with  more  than  fifty full-time
  equivalent employees shall display the poster created pursuant  to  this
  section in a conspicuous place accessible to employees in the workplace.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202 - Protection of the Public and of Persons Engaged at Window Cleaning and Cleaning of Exterior Surfaces of Buildings.

§  202.  Protection  of  the  public  and of persons engaged at window
  cleaning and cleaning of exterior  surfaces  of  buildings.  The  owner,
  lessee,  agent and manager of every public building and every contractor
  involved shall provide such safe means for the cleaning of  the  windows
  and  of  exterior  surfaces  of  such  building  as  may be required and
  approved by the board of  standards  and  appeals.  The  owner,  lessee,
  agent,  manager  or superintendent of any such public building and every
  contractor involved shall not  require,  permit,  suffer  or  allow  any
  window  or  exterior  surface of such building to be cleaned unless such
  means are provided to enable such work to be done in a safe  manner  for
  the  prevention of accidents and for the protection of the public and of
  persons engaged in such work in conformity with the requirements of this
  chapter and the rules of the board of standards and  appeals.  A  person
  engaged  at  cleaning  windows or exterior surfaces of a public building
  shall use the safety devices provided for his protection. Every employer
  and contractor involved shall comply with this section and the rules  of
  the  board and shall require his employee, while engaged in cleaning any
  window or exterior surface of a public building, to  use  the  equipment
  and  safety  devices  required by this chapter and rules of the board of
  standards and appeals.
The provisions of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  (1)  multiple
  dwellings  six stories or less in height located anywhere in this state;
  nor to (2) any building three stories or less in height in cities, towns
  or villages having a population of less than forty thousand; nor to  (3)
  the  windows  or exterior surfaces of any building which may be exempted
  under any rule adopted by the board of standards and appeals.
The board of standards and appeals may grant  variations  pursuant  to
  the   provisions  of  section  thirty  of  this  chapter.  All  existing
  variations heretofore made by the board  relating  to  the  cleaning  of
  windows  are  hereby  validated  and  continued in full force and effect
  until amended or terminated by the board.
The board of standards and appeals may make rules  to  effectuate  the
  purposes of this section.
Notwithstanding  any  other  law  or regulation, local or general, the
  provisions of this section and the  rules  issued  thereunder  shall  be
  applicable  exclusively  throughout the state and the commissioner shall
  have exclusive authority to enforce this section and  the  rules  issued
  thereunder.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-A - Leave of Absence for Bone Marrow Donations.

§  202-a.  Leave  of  absence  for  bone  marrow donations. 1. For the
purposes of this section, the following terms shall have  the  following
meanings:
(a)  "Employee"  means  a person who performs services for hire for an
employer, for an average of twenty or more hours per week, and  includes
all  individuals  employed  at any site owned or operated by an employer
but shall not include an independent contractor.
(b) "Employer" means a person or entity that employs  twenty  or  more
employees  at at least one site and includes an individual, corporation,
partnership, association,  nonprofit  organization,  group  of  persons,
county,   town,   city,  school  district,  public  authority  or  other
governmental subdivision of any kind.
2. An employer must grant leaves of absence to an employee  who  seeks
to  undergo  a  medical  procedure  to  donate bone marrow. The combined
length of the leaves shall be determined by the physician, but  may  not
exceed  twenty-four  work  hours,  unless agreed to by the employer. The
employer may require verification by a physician  for  the  purpose  and
length of each leave requested by the employee to donate bone marrow.
3.  An employer shall not retaliate against an employee for requesting
or obtaining a leave of absence as provided  by  this  section  for  the
purpose of undergoing a medical procedure to donate bone marrow.
4.  The  provisions of this section shall not prevent an employer from
providing leave for bone marrow donations in addition to  leave  allowed
under  any  other provision of law. The provisions of this section shall
not affect an employee's rights  with  respect  to  any  other  employee
benefit otherwise provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-B - Leave for Organ or Bone Marrow Donation Granted to State Employees.

§  202-b.  Leave  for  organ  or bone marrow donation granted to state
  employees.  1. Any employee of the state of New York shall be allowed up
  to seven days paid leave to undergo a medical procedure to  donate  bone
  marrow  and  up  to  thirty  days paid leave to serve as an organ donor,
  provided, however, that an employee of  the  state  of  New  York  shall
  provide  his  or  her  employer  with  not less than fourteen days prior
  written notice of an intention  to  utilize  such  leave,  unless  there
  exists  a  medical  emergency,  attested  to by a physician, which would
  require the employee to participate in the medical  procedure  or  organ
  donation  for  which  the  leave  is  sought  within  the  fourteen  day
  notification period. Such leave shall be in addition to any  other  sick
  or  annual  leave  allowed.  The  employer may require verification by a
  physician for the purpose and length of  each  leave  requested  by  the
  employee to donate bone marrow.
2.  An employer shall not retaliate against an employee for requesting
  or obtaining a leave of absence as provided  by  this  section  for  the
  purpose of undergoing a medical procedure to donate bone marrow or serve
  as an organ donor.
3.  The  provisions of this section shall not prevent an employer from
  providing leave for bone marrow or organ donations in addition to  leave
  allowed under any other provision of law. The provisions of this section
  shall not affect an employee's rights with respect to any other employee
  benefit otherwise provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-C - Prevention of Personal Injuries in the Use of Ski Tows, Other Passenger Tramways and Downhill Ski Areas.

§ 202-c. Prevention of personal injuries in the use of ski tows, other
  passenger  tramways  and  downhill ski areas.  The commissioner may make
  rules, consistent with article eighteen of the general obligations  law,
  guarding  against  personal  injuries to employees and the public in the
  use and operation of ski tows, other passenger tramways and downhill ski
  areas.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-D - Coin-Operated Machines Performing a Manufacturing Process.

§  202-d.  Coin-operated  machines performing a manufacturing process.
  The  commissioner  may  make  such  rules  governing  the  construction,
  maintenance,  use, and operation of coin-operated machines which perform
  any manufacturing process  that  he  or  she  finds  necessary  for  the
  protection  of the lives, health, and safety of employees and of persons
  lawfully using such machines. The term "manufacturing" as used  in  this
  section  shall  include  the  processes described in subdivision nine of
  section two of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-E - Protection of Persons Employed On/in Vehicular Bridges And/or Tunnels.

§ 202-e. Protection of persons employed on/in vehicular bridges and/or
  tunnels.  The  board of standards and appeals may make such rules as may
  be necessary for the protection of  the  lives,  health  and  safety  of
  persons  employed  on/in  vehicular bridges and/or tunnels by bridge and
  tunnel authorities subject to the public authorities law of this state.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-F - Protection of Hotel and Motel Employees Against Fire Hazards in Employee Housing Facilities.

§  202-f. Protection of hotel and motel employees against fire hazards
  in employee housing facilities. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of
  law,  the  board  of  standards and appeals shall issue a temporary rule
  governing fire  hazards  in  housing  facilities  for  hotel  and  motel
  employees,  to  become  effective  on  the  first  day of June, nineteen
  hundred seventy-three. Such temporary rule shall contain  such  national
  consensus standards or standards of any governmental agency in the state
  relating  to  housing  facilities  as  the board deems necessary for the
  protection of the lives, health and safety of hotel and motel employees.
  Notice of the adoption of such temporary rule shall be published in  ten
  newspapers  throughout  the state and such temporary rule shall be filed
  with the secretary of state. Such temporary rule shall remain in  effect
  until  superseded  by  a  safety  and  health  standard  promulgated  in
  accordance with the procedure  prescribed  in  article  twelve  of  this
  chapter  or  until the first day of June, nineteen hundred seventy-four,
  whichever occurs first, provided however, that nothing in  this  section
  shall  prevent any other agency of the state or subdivision thereof from
  enforcing a public health and safety standard  promulgated  pursuant  to
  section two hundred twenty-five of the public health law.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-G - Display of Fuel-Connected Appliances in Wholesale or Retail Store.

§  202-g.  Display of fuel-connected appliances in wholesale or retail
  store.  No gas, gasoline or liquefied petroleum  gas  fueled  appliances
  shall  be  displayed  in  a wholesale or retail store when attached to a
  live fuel source.  This section shall not prevent a  live  demonstration
  of  such appliances under the immediate supervision, and in the presence
  of, a responsible adult.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-I - Leave of Absence for Military Spouses.

§ 202-i. Leave of absence for military spouses. 1. For the purposes of
this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a)  "Employee"  means  a  person who performs service for hire for an
employer, for an average of twenty or more hours per week, and  includes
all  individuals  employed  at any site owned or operated by an employer
but shall not include an independent contractor.
(b) "Employer" means a person or entity that employs  twenty  or  more
employees  at at least one site and includes an individual, corporation,
the state, county, town, city,  school  district,  public  authority  or
other governmental subdivision of any kind.
(c)  "Period  of  military conflict" means a period of war declared by
the United States Congress, or in which a member of a reserve  component
of the armed forces is ordered to active duty pursuant to sections 12301
and 12302 of title 10 of the United States Code.
2.  The  spouse  of a member of the armed forces of the United States,
national guard or reserves who has been  deployed  during  a  period  of
military  conflict,  to  a  combat  theater or combat zone of operations
shall be allowed up to ten days unpaid leave  by  their  employer.  Such
leave  shall only be used when such person's spouse is on leave from the
armed forces of the United States,  national  guard  or  reserves  while
deployed  during  a  period  of military conflict to a combat theater or
combat zone of operations.
3. An employer shall not retaliate against an employee for  requesting
or obtaining a leave of absence as provided in this section.
4.  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall not affect or prevent an
employer from providing leave for military spouses in addition to  leave
allowed under any other provision of law. The provisions of this section
shall not affect an employee's rights with respect to any other employee
benefit provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-J - Leave of Absence for Blood Donation Granted to Employees.

§  202-j. Leave of absence for blood donation granted to employees. 1.
For the purposes of this section, the following  terms  shall  have  the
following meanings:
(a)  "Employee"  means  a person who performs services for hire for an
employer, for an average of twenty or more hours per week, and  includes
all  individuals  employed  at any site owned or operated by an employer
but shall not include an independent contractor.
(b) "Employer" means a person or entity that employs  twenty  or  more
employees  at at least one site and includes an individual, corporation,
partnership, association,  nonprofit  organization,  group  of  persons,
state,  county,  town,  city, school district, public authority or other
governmental subdivision of any kind.
2. An employer must either, at its option: (a) grant  three  hours  of
leave  of absence in any twelve month period to an employee who seeks to
donate blood; provided that the leave of absence may  not  exceed  three
hours,  unless otherwise agreed to by the employer, and must comply with
the requirements established by the commissioner under subdivision  five
of  this  section; or (b) allow its employees without use of accumulated
leave time to donate blood during work hours at least two times per year
at a convenient time and place set by the employer,  including  allowing
an  employee  to participate in a blood drive at the employee's place of
employment.
3. An employer shall not retaliate against an employee for  requesting
or obtaining a leave of absence under this section.
4. This section shall not prevent an employer from providing leave for
blood donation in addition to leave allowed under any other provision of
law.  This section shall not affect an employee's rights with respect to
any other employee benefit otherwise provided by law.
5. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to establish any
necessary guidelines, including requirements  for  notice,  request  and
approval  of  leave, and documentation, for the timely implementation of
the program.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 7 - General Provisions › 202-K - Protection of Persons Employed in the Broadcast Industry.

§  202-k. Protection of persons employed in the broadcast industry. 1.
For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Broadcasting industry employer" includes television  stations  or
networks,  radio  stations  or  networks,  cable  stations  or networks,
internet or satellite-based services similar to a broadcast  station  or
network,  any broadcast entities affiliated with any of the employers of
this paragraph, or any other entity that provides broadcasting  services
such  as  news,  weather,  traffic,  sports, or entertainment reports or
programming.
(b) "Broadcast employee" means any on-air employee or off-air employee
of a broadcasting industry employer, excluding management employees.
2. A broadcasting industry employer shall not require as  a  condition
of  employment,  whether  in an employment contract or otherwise, that a
broadcast  employee  or  prospective  broadcast  employee  refrain  from
obtaining employment:
(a) in any specified geographic area;
(b) for a specific period of time; or
(c)  with any particular employer or in any particular industry; after
the conclusion of employment with such broadcasting  industry  employer.
This  section  shall  not  apply to preventing the enforcement of such a
covenant during the term of an employment contract.
3. Any person who violates this section shall be civilly liable  to  a
broadcast employee for damages, attorney's fees and costs.