New York General Business Law Article 11 - EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.

• 170 - Application of Article.
  This article shall apply to all employment agencies in the state.
• 171 - Definitions.
  Whenever used in this article: 1. "Commissioner" means the industrial commissioner of the state of New York, except that in the application of this article...
• 172 - License Required.
  No person shall open, keep, maintain, own, operate or carry on any employment agency unless such person shall have first procured a license therefor as...
• 173 - Application for License.
  1. An application for such license shall be made to the commissioner of labor, except that if the employment agency is to be conducted in...
• 174 - Procedure Upon Application; Grant of License.
  1. Upon the receipt of an application for a license, the commissioner shall cause the name and address of the applicant, the name under which...
• 175 - Form and Contents of License.
  1. Every license shall contain the name of the person licensed, a designation of the city, town or village, street and number of the place...
• 176 - Assignment or Transfer of License; Change of Location; Additional Locations.
  A license granted as provided in this article shall not be valid for any person other than the person to whom it is issued or...
• 177 - Bonds and License Fees.
  1. Every person licensed under the provisions of this article to carry on the business of an employment agency shall pay to the commissioner a...
• 178 - Action on Bond.
  All claims or suits brought in any court against any licensed person may be brought in the name of the person damaged upon the bond...
• 179 - Registers and Other Records to Be Kept.
  It shall be the duty of every licensed person to keep a register, approved by the commissioner, in which shall be entered, in the English...
• 181 - Contracts, Statements of Terms and Conditions, and Receipts.
  It shall be the duty of every employment agency to give to each applicant for employment: 1. A true copy of every contract executed between...
• 182 - Cards to Be Furnished Nurses; Registry Records.
  A nurses' registry shall send out to practice nursing only persons duly licensed pursuant to article one hundred thirty-nine of the education law as a...
• 184 - Recruitment of Domestic or Household Employees Who are Residents of Other States; Findings and Policy.
  The acute shortage of domestic or household employees in this state has led to extensive recruitment of such employees from other states in the continental...
• 184-a - Recruitment of Domestic or Household Employees From Outside the Continental United States.
  1. Purposes. The recruitment of domestic or household employees from outside the continental United States involves special problems and special services not encompassed in other...
• 185 - Fees.
  1. Circumstances permitting fee. An employment agency shall not charge or accept a fee or other consideration unless in accordance with the terms of a...
• 185-a - Domestic Dayworkers Who are Transported to the Place of Employment.
  1. Purposes. The lack of adequate local transportation in certain suburban and urban communities of the state has caused employment agencies to provide transportation to...
• 186 - Return of Fees.
  1. Excessive fee: Any employment agency which collects, receives or retains a fee or other payment contrary to or in excess of the provisions of...
• 187 - Additional Prohibitions.
  An employment agency shall not engage in any of the following activities or conduct: (1) Induce or attempt to induce any employee to terminate his...
• 188 - Copies of Law to Be Posted.
  1. Every licensed person shall post in a conspicuous place in the main room of such agency sections one hundred seventy-eight, one hundred eighty-one, one...
• 189 - Enforcement of Provisions of This Article.
  1. This article, article nineteen-B of the labor law and sections 37.01, 37.03 and 37.05 of the arts and cultural affairs law shall be enforced...
• 190 - Penalties for Violations.
  Any person who violates and the officers of a corporation and stockholders holding ten percent or more of the stock of a corporation which is...
• 191 - Definition.
  Whenever used in this article: "employer fee paid employment agency" means any person who on behalf of employers procures or attempts to procure employees for...
• 192 - Prohibited Activities.
  An employer fee paid employment agency shall not engage in any of the following activities or conduct: 1. Direct an applicant to an employer for...
• 193 - Penalties for Violation.
  Any person violating the provisions of section one hundred ninety-two of this article shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and shall be subject...
• 194 - Employment Agency Fees; Reimbursement From Employee to Employer Prohibited.
  1. As used in this section: (a) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of labor. (b) "Employer" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, receiver,...

Last modified: February 3, 2019