Title LAB, Labor

§ 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 an…

§ 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 a…

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

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

§ 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), …

§ 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 department shall continue until changed, consolidated or abolished pursuant to this section. The commissioner may establish such divisions or bureaus as may be necessary for the administration and operation of the …

§ 200. General duty to protect health and safety of employees; enforcement. 1. All places to which this chapter applies shall be so constructed, equipped, arranged, operated and conducted as to provide reasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health and safety of all per…

§ 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 …

§ 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 affec…

§ 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 su…

§ 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…

§ 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 b…

§ 201-d. Discrimination against the engagement in certain activities. 1. Definitions. As used in this section: a. "Political activities" shall mean (i) running for public office, (ii) campaigning for a candidate for public office, or (iii) participating in fund-raising activitie…

§ 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 emp…

§ 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 co…

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

§ 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 service…

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

§ 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…

§ 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 inc…

§ 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, pr…

§ 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 t…

§ 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 protectio…

§ 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 …

§ 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 empl…

§ 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…

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

§ 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 …

§ 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…

§ 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 sim…

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

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

§ 203-a. Seats in certain passenger elevators or relief for the operator. Every passenger elevator operated and maintained for use by the public shall be equipped or furnished with a seat, collapsible or otherwise, for the use of the operator when the elevator is not being opera…

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

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

§ 203-d. Employee personal identifying information. 1. An employer shall not unless otherwise required by law: (a) Publicly post or display an employee's social security number; (b) Visibly print a social security number on any identification badge or card, including any time ca…

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

§ 203-f. Inventions made by employees. 1. Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entire…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 207-a. Employee safety in work on energized high voltage lines. 1. There shall be no change in the present industry work practices, procedures and standards with regard to bare-hand, live-line techniques or with insulated-glove techniques in the handling of energized high-volt…

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

§ 209. Illegal use of labels, brands and marks; injunction proceedings. No person shall in any way use or display the label, brand, mark, name or other character, adopted by any such union or association as provided in section two hundred eight, without the consent or authority …

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