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NY S02956
Bill
Status
8/30/2010
Primary Sponsor
Eric Adams
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AI Summary
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Prohibits employers from penalizing, threatening, transferring, or taking adverse employment actions against employees based on failure to meet quotas for tickets, summonses, arrests, or stops of individuals suspected of criminal activity within a specified period.
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Expands quota prohibition beyond traffic violations to include violations of any general, special, or local law for which a ticket, summons, or arrest is authorized.
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Defines prohibited penalties to include reassignment, scheduling changes, adverse evaluations, constructive dismissal, denial of promotion, and denial of overtime.
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Requires employers to restore penalized employees to their previous position and compensate them for any lost wages, unless the employee is no longer qualified to perform the job.
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Declares it contrary to public policy for employers to establish or maintain quota policies for tickets, summonses, arrests, or stops of individuals suspected of criminal activity.
Legislative Description
Expands the quota penalty provisions to include a ticket, summons or arrest authorized by any general, special or local law made within a specified period of time, and quotas for stops of individuals suspected of criminal activity within a specified period of time; further provides that such employee shall not threaten an employee through a reassignment, scheduling change, adverse evaluation, constructive dismissal, denial of a promotion or the denial of overtime.
Last Action
SIGNED CHAP.460
8/30/2010