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Protects certain employees from a reduction of wages due to their involvement in the investigation of a violation of a workplace violence protection program, the official text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   5254
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 protecting certain employ-
   ees from a reduction of wages due to their involvement in the investi-
   gation of a violation of a workplace violence protection program

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 6 of section 27-b of the labor law is amended
 by adding a new paragraph d-1 to read as follows:
   D-1. NO EMPLOYEE WHO ACCOMPANIES THE COMMISSIONER  ON  AN  INSPECTION,
 PARTICIPATES  IN  A  RISK  EVALUATION  AND  DETERMINATION INSPECTION, OR
 PARTICIPATES IN AN ANNUAL PROGRAM REVIEW SHALL SUFFER ANY  REDUCTION  IN
 WAGES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07268-01-5
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