Urge your state legislators to co-sponsor workers' rights bills in New York

Workers deserve more rights

We live in a culture where corporations simply have too much power. Currently, they can:

  • Ask us to sign away our rights
  • Push us out of our jobs for any reason or no reason
  • Work while grieving a loved one
  • Check our credit in the hiring process
  • Fail to conduct investigations for reports of sexual harassment
  • Discriminate against those suffering from domestic violence
  • Retaliate against injured workers
  • Make it difficult for us to leave toxic workplaces when our healthcare is tied to our jobs
  • Silence us when we've been abused
  • Pay some workers below minimum wage
  • Not grant sufficient sick leave amid COVID-19
  • Conduct abusive scheduling practices
  • Avoid accountability for discrimination through wages and promotions
  • Steal wages
  • Block public employees from striking
  • Ask about our desired salary ranges, which has a discriminatory impact
  • Verbally abuse and sabotage workers with zero accountability

We can change this toxic culture for workers through by passing these bills into law:

Benefits after employment separation, S372
This bill will not disqualify an employee from receiving benefits for separation from employment in cases where the claimant's employer maintained or refused to cure a health or safety condition that made the environment unsuitable.

Domestic violence, S7996 / A8971

Victims of domestic violence and family members of them sometimes experience discharge or others forms of discrimination at work or in the hiring process. But they deserve reasonable accommodations at work rather than forced to take leave if the accommodations won't impose undue hardships on employers.

Fair workweek scheduling, S3871 / A392
The bill imposes requirements for certain types of employers with regard to the determination of employee work schedules.

Injured workers, S4140
We need stronger anti-retaliation law. This bill provides for an administrative complaint and investigation mechanism for enforcement and otherwise addresses employer misconduct that prevents workers from receiving timely medical care and benefits.

Medicare for all, S3425 / A7897
Guaranteed equitable health care access for all through a single payer health care financing system will ensure healthcare without regard to financial or employment status, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, previous health problems, or geographic location. This safety net will make it easier for workers to leave toxic workplaces. The act will provide access to healthcare services that are continuous, without the current need for repeated re-enrollments or changes when employers choose new plans and residents change jobs. Coverage shall be comprehensive and affordable, with no co-insurance, co-payments, or deductibles.

Minimum wage, S4048
This bill increases the minimum wage.

Nondisclosure agreements, S5404

When employers use settlements with their presumed guilt and/or to save money, they often add gag clauses to protect their reputations. Yet those gag clauses silence targets and embolden serial abusers. The Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) bill would ban NDAs.

Paid sick leave, S4304
Known as the "Paid Sick Leave Act," this bill mandates that all employers provide paid sick leave to employees, accruing at a rate of one hour for every 20 hours worked.

Parental leave (Make Time for Parenting Act), A5735
This bill will grant leave to attend school conferences and classroom activities related to the employee's child without negative consequence.

PTSD and first responders, S5619
This bill will allow police officers, correction officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD to request sick leave.

Right to strike for public employees, S938 / A2293
Withholding labor is a fundamental human right. Strikes and the threat of them are a part of the collective bargaining process, especially for teachers, police, and firefighters. This bill calls for a repeal of a state law that bans public sector workers from going on strike.

Scheduling, A5423
Proposes a four-day workweek pilot program for state employees, aiming to improve work-life balance.

State enforcement authority (Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act), S448, A4278
This bill will allow employees, whistleblowers, and organizations to initiate public enforcement actions on behalf of the state for labor law violations.

Wage data reporting, A1975
This bill will require corporations to file an EEO-1 report with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and to the New York Secretary of State.

Women in high-wage, high-demand, nontraditional jobs grant program, A1999
This bill will create the women and high-wage, high-demand, nontraditional jobs grant program; encourages and assists women to enter high-wage, high-demand occupations including but not limited to trades, science, technology, engineering, and math.

Workplace abuse, S1893/A3482 - need amendments
Workplace bullying is a severe and pervasive phenomenon in the US involving a violation of the basic human right to dignity. Bullying tactics include false accusations, exclusion, withholding necessary resources, sabotage, verbal abuse, put-downs, and unreasonable demands — resulting in a host of stress-related symptoms including anxiety, depression, PTSD, and suicide ideation. This bill would hold employers accountable for abusive conduct with amendments to remove proof of intent and health harm — both regressive compared to sexual harassment law.

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