What's happening
This bill requires nonprofits receiving at least half their budgets from government to prevent workplace violence.
Why it matters
Funding threshold. Across New York, nonprofits receiving at least 50% of their budgets from government sources would fall under the workplace violence prevention law.
Expanded coverage. The bill adds qualifying nonprofit corporations to the law’s definition of employer, extending duties beyond its existing covered employers.
Immediate obligations. Covered nonprofits would have to develop and implement workplace violence prevention programs. The change would take effect immediately.
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Who cares
Government-funded nonprofits
Organizations meeting the funding threshold would become responsible for workplace violence prevention programs.
Nonprofit employees
Workers at newly covered organizations would gain workplace violence prevention requirements at their jobs.
New York State Department of Labor
The bill would expand the employers covered by the workplace violence prevention law it administers.
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Require Nonprofit Workplace Violence Prevention
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to labor
- Referred to labor
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Expand Workplace Violence Protections
In Assembly Committee · Labor · Sponsor Latoya Joyner
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4358
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 11, 2019
Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 the definition of employer and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the labor law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the state, provided, however that this subdivision shall not mean any employer as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one-a of the education law; (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or any other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof; [and] (4) an authorized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of section three hundred seventy-one of the social services law that accepts children adjudicated delinquent under article three of the family court act; and (5) a not-for-profit corporation, as defined in paragraph (a) of section one hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation law, who received at least fifty percent of their budget through government sources.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00274-01-9
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the labor law, in relation to the definition of employer and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence
Purpose
To ensure employee safety through the development and implementation of workplace violence prevention programs for not-for-profit corporations who have received at least fifty percent of their budget through govern- ment sources.
Summary of provisions
Section 1: Amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the labor law, as added by Chapter 82 of the laws of 2006
Section 2: Adds to the definition of employer: a not-for-profit corpo- ration, as defined in paragraph (a) of section 102 of the not-for-profit corporation law, who received at least fifty percent of their budget through government sources.
Justification
The incidence of violence against government employees has become a growing concern in recent years and is more than 85 percent higher than that of private sector employees, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report entitled "Workplace Violence Against Government Employ- ees, 1994 - 2011" released in April 2013. Recognizing the need to ensure that workplaces are free of violence this bill would assist both employ- ers and employees in ensuring a safe work environment by building upon the New York State Workplace Violence Prevention Law enacted on June 7,2006. That previously enacted legislation created
Section 27-b of the State Labor Law requiring most public employers to perform a workplace evaluation and develop and implement programs to prevent and minimize workplace violence. This legislation broadens the application of those same successful programs to non-profit organiza- tions receiving at least 50 percent of their budget from governmental sources.
Legislative history
s.k 1 2016 - Referred to Labor
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This Act shall take effect immediately.
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