A 618: Requires employers to inform their employees that non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions in their employment contracts do not prohibit them from speaking with law enforcement, the equal employment opportunity commission, the state division of human rights, a local commission on human rights, or an attorney retained by the employee.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 618 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the commissioner's duty to ensure employers inform employees about certain provisions in employ- ment contracts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 21 of the labor law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 17 to read as follows: 3 17. Shall require employers to inform their employees that non-disclo- 4 sure or non-disparagement provisions in their employment contracts do 5 not prohibit them from speaking with law enforcement, the equal employ- 6 ment opportunity commission, the state division of human rights, a local 7 commission on human rights, or an attorney retained by the employee. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00246-01-5