Title LAB, Labor

§ 198-c. Benefits or wage supplements. 1. In addition to any other\npenalty or punishment otherwise prescribed by law, any employer who is\nparty to an agreement to pay or provide benefits or wage supplements to\nemployees or to a third party or fund for the benefit of employees…

§ 198-d. Posting regulations on illegal wage deductions. Every\nemployer engaged in the sale or service of food or beverages shall post\nin his establishment, in a place accessible to his employees and in a\nvisually conspicuous manner, a copy of sections one hundred ninety-thre…

§ 198-e. Construction industry wage theft. 1. A contractor making or\ntaking a construction contract shall be liable for any debt resulting\nfrom an action under section one hundred ninety-eight of this article,\nowed to an employee or third party on the employee's behalf, incur…

§ 199. Rules and regulations. The commissioner may issue such rules\nand regulations as he determines necessary for the purposes of carrying\nout the provisions of this article.\n

§ 199-a. Notification of process. 1. Each employee who files a\ncomplaint regarding a violation of a provision of this article (payment\nof wages), article nineteen (minimum wage act), or article nineteen-A\n(minimum wage standards and protective labor practices for farm\nworker…

§ 2. Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter:\n 1. "Department" means the department of labor of the state of New\nYork.\n 2. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of labor of the state of New\nYork.\n 3. "Board," as determined by the context, shall mean either the\nworkmen's…

§ 20. Divisions or bureaus. Existing divisions or bureaus in the\ndepartment shall continue until changed, consolidated or abolished\npursuant to this section. The commissioner may establish such divisions\nor bureaus as may be necessary for the administration and operation of\n…

§ 200. General duty to protect health and safety of employees;\nenforcement. 1. All places to which this chapter applies shall be so\nconstructed, equipped, arranged, operated and conducted as to provide\nreasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health and safety of\nall…

§ 200-a. Laws to be posted at airports. An airport, as defined in\nsection two hundred forty of the general business law, shall permanently\nand prominently post signs indicating the increased penalties for\ninterference with security personnel under 49 USC 46503. Such signs\nsh…

§ 201. Laws and orders to be posted. Wherever persons are employed who\nare affected by the provisions of this chapter or of the industrial\ncode, the commissioner shall furnish to the employer copies or abstracts\nof such provisions, rules and orders as he may deem necessary af…

§ 201-a. Fingerprinting of employees prohibited. Except as otherwise\nprovided by law, no person, as a condition of securing employment or of\ncontinuing employment, shall be required to be fingerprinted. This\nprovision shall not apply to employees of the state or any municipal…

§ 201-b. Fees for medical examination. 1. It shall be unlawful for any\nemployer to require any applicant for employment to pay the cost of a\nmedical examination required by the employer as a condition of original\nemployment.\n 2. It shall be unlawful for any employer to requi…

§ 201-c. Discrimination in child-care leave prohibited. 1. Whenever an\nemployer or governmental agency permits an employee to take a leave of\nabsence upon the birth of such employee's child, an adoptive parent,\nfollowing the commencement of the parent-child relationship, shal…

§ 201-d. Discrimination against the engagement in certain activities.\n1. Definitions. As used in this section:\n a. "Political activities" shall mean (i) running for public office,\n(ii) campaigning for a candidate for public office, or (iii)\nparticipating in fund-raising acti…

§ 201-e. Maintenance of employee-patient records at occupational\nhealth service centers. No person charged with the custody and care of\nthe health records of employees treated at an on-site employer sponsored\noccupational health service facility shall release or disclose any\…

§ 201-f. Posting regulations on employment of persons previously\nconvicted of one or more crimes. Every employer shall post in his or her\nestablishment, in a place accessible to his or her employees and in a\nvisually conspicuous manner, a copy of article twenty-three-A of the…

§ 201-g. Prevention of sexual harassment. 1. The department shall\nconsult with the division of human rights to create and publish a model\nsexual harassment prevention guidance document and sexual harassment\nprevention policy that employers may utilize in their adoption of a\n…

§ 201-h. Posting of veterans' benefits and services. 1. The department\nshall consult with the division of veterans' services to create and\ndistribute a veterans' benefits and services poster.\n 2. Such poster shall, at a minimum, include information regarding the\nfollowing se…

§ 201-i. Request for access to personal accounts prohibited. 1. For\npurposes of this section, the following words shall have the following\nmeanings:\n (a) "Applicant" means an applicant for employment.\n (b) "Electronic communications device" means any device that uses\nelectr…

§ 202. Protection of the public and of persons engaged at window\ncleaning and cleaning of exterior surfaces of buildings. The owner,\nlessee, agent and manager of every public building and every contractor\ninvolved shall provide such safe means for the cleaning of the windows\…

§ 202-a. Leave of absence for bone marrow donations. 1. For the\npurposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n (a) "Employee" means a person who performs services for hire for an\nemployer, for an average of twenty or more hours per week, an…

§ 202-b. Leave for organ or bone marrow donation granted to state\nemployees. 1. Any employee of the state of New York shall be allowed up\nto seven days paid leave to undergo a medical procedure to donate bone\nmarrow and up to thirty days paid leave to serve as an organ donor,…

§ 202-c. Prevention of personal injuries in the use of ski tows, other\npassenger tramways and downhill ski areas. The commissioner may make\nrules, consistent with article eighteen of the general obligations law,\nguarding against personal injuries to employees and the public i…

§ 202-d. Coin-operated machines performing a manufacturing process.\nThe commissioner may make such rules governing the construction,\nmaintenance, use, and operation of coin-operated machines which perform\nany manufacturing process that he or she finds necessary for the\nprote…

§ 202-e. Protection of persons employed on/in vehicular bridges and/or\ntunnels. The board of standards and appeals may make such rules as may\nbe necessary for the protection of the lives, health and safety of\npersons employed on/in vehicular bridges and/or tunnels by bridge a…

§ 202-f. Protection of hotel and motel employees against fire hazards\nin employee housing facilities. Notwithstanding any other provision of\nlaw, the board of standards and appeals shall issue a temporary rule\ngoverning fire hazards in housing facilities for hotel and motel\n…

§ 202-g. Display of fuel-connected appliances in wholesale or retail\nstore. No gas, gasoline or liquefied petroleum gas fueled appliances\nshall be displayed in a wholesale or retail store when attached to a\nlive fuel source. This section shall not prevent a live demonstration…

§ 202-h. High-voltage proximity. 1. This section may be known as the\n"high-voltage proximity act".\n 2. Definitions. For the purpose of this section:\n (a) "High-voltage lines" means electrical conductors installed above\nground and having a voltage differential in excess of si…

§ 202-i. Leave of absence for military spouses. 1. For the purposes of\nthis section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:\n (a) "Employee" means a person who performs service for hire for an\nemployer, for an average of twenty or more hours per week, and inclu…

§ 202-j. Leave of absence for blood donation granted to employees. 1.\nFor the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the\nfollowing meanings:\n (a) "Employee" means a person who performs services for hire for an\nemployer, for an average of twenty or more hour…

§ 202-k. Protection of persons employed in the broadcast industry. 1.\nFor the purposes of this section:\n (a) "Broadcasting industry employer" includes television stations or\nnetworks, radio stations or networks, cable stations or networks,\ninternet or satellite-based service…

§ 202-l. Leave of absence for volunteer emergency responders. 1.\nDuring the time that an emergency exists following a declaration of such\nemergency pursuant to section twenty-four or twenty-eight of the\nexecutive law, an employee may request and shall be granted a leave of\na…

§ 203. Washrooms, washing facilities and waterclosets for elevator\nemployees. There shall be provided and maintained for the use of all\npersons employed in operating freight or passenger elevators adequate\nand convenient washrooms or washing facilities and a sufficient number…

§ 203-a. Seats in certain passenger elevators or relief for the\noperator. Every passenger elevator operated and maintained for use by\nthe public shall be equipped or furnished with a seat, collapsible or\notherwise, for the use of the operator when the elevator is not being\no…

§ 203-b. Seats for female employees. A sufficient number of suitable\nseats, with backs where practicable, shall be provided and maintained in\nevery factory, mercantile establishment, freight or passenger elevator,\nhotel and restaurant for female employees who shall be allowed…

§ 203-c. Employee privacy protection. 1. No employer may cause a video\nrecording to be made of an employee in a restroom, locker room, or room\ndesignated by an employer for employees to change their clothes, unless\nauthorized by court order.\n 2. No video recording made in vi…

§ 203-d. Employee personal identifying information. 1. An employer\nshall not unless otherwise required by law:\n (a) Publicly post or display an employee's social security number;\n (b) Visibly print a social security number on any identification badge\nor card, including any t…

§ 203-e. Prohibition of discrimination based on an employee's or a\ndependent's reproductive health decision making. 1. An employer shall be\nprohibited from accessing an employee's personal information regarding\nthe employee's or the employee's dependent's reproductive health\…

§ 203-f. Inventions made by employees. 1. Any provision in an\nemployment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or\noffer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her\nemployer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed\nen…

§ 204. Inspection of boilers; enforcement; fees; identification;\nexceptions. 1. Inspection. The commissioner shall cause to be inspected\nat least once every two years all boilers as defined in this section,\nexcept for high pressure power boilers, antique boilers and miniature…

§ 204-b. Refunds. Whenever the commissioner determines that any moneys\nreceived under the provisions of this chapter or the rules issued\nthereunder, or any moneys received under the provisions of article\neleven of the general business law, are in excess of the amount required…

§ 205. Prohibition against eating meals in certain workrooms. No\nemployee shall take or be permitted to take any food into a room of any\nworking place where lead, arsenic or other poisonous substances or\ninjurious or noxious fumes, dust or gases exist in harmful conditions or…

§ 206. Prevention of personal injuries to persons engaged in tree\ntrimming. The board of standards and appeals may make rules guarding\nagainst personal injuries to persons engaged in cutting, trimming or\nremoving trees or brush for hire. Such rules shall not apply to persons\…

§ 206-a. Physical examinations of females. Whenever an employer shall\nrequire a physical examination of a female by a physician or a surgeon\nshe shall be entitled to have the examination made by one of her sex or\nto have another female present if a male physician or surgeon m…

§ 206-c. Right of nursing employees to express breast milk. 1. An\nemployer shall provide paid break time for thirty minutes, and permit an\nemployee to use existing paid break time or meal time for time in excess\nof thirty minutes, to allow an employee to express breast milk f…

§ 207. Protection of employees at switchboards. All buildings having\ninstalled therein a switchboard of two hundred and twenty volts or over\nshall have, on the floor or upon the platform or other standing place\nwhere the switchboard is located or to which it is attached, a ru…

§ 207-a. Employee safety in work on energized high voltage lines. 1.\nThere shall be no change in the present industry work practices,\nprocedures and standards with regard to bare-hand, live-line techniques\nor with insulated-glove techniques in the handling of energized\nhigh-…

§ 208. Labels, brands and marks used by labor organizations. 1. A bona\nfide union or association of employees which has adopted a device in the\nform of a label, brand, mark, name or other character for the purpose of\ndesignating the products of the labor of its members may ap…

§ 209. Illegal use of labels, brands and marks; injunction\nproceedings. No person shall in any way use or display the label,\nbrand, mark, name or other character, adopted by any such union or\nassociation as provided in section two hundred eight, without the\nconsent or author…

§ 209-a. Fraudulent representation in labor organizations. Any person\nwho represents himself or herself to be a member of, or who claims to\nrepresent a labor organization which does not exist within the state, at\nthe time of such representation, or who has in his or her posse…