A 455: Establishes a claim for fraudulent inducement to enter into an employment relationship based on false promises as to wages, benefits, or intentions as to the duration of employment.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 455 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a claim for fraudulent inducement to enter into an employment relationship The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 198-f to 2 read as follows: 3 § 198-f. Fraudulent inducement prohibited. 1. No employer shall know- 4 ingly make any false or misleading statement regarding wages, benefits, 5 or wage supplements to any person with intent to induce such person into 6 entering or remaining in an employment relationship. 7 2. If any employee has been fraudulently induced by such employee's 8 employer to enter into or remain in an employment relationship, such 9 employee shall recover in a civil action all damages incurred in reli- 10 ance on such fraudulent inducement, together with costs and reasonable 11 attorney's fees, prejudgment interest as required under the civil prac- 12 tice law and rules, and an additional amount as liquidated damages equal 13 to one hundred percent of the total amount of such reliance damages. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02396-01-5