New York Labor Law Article 7 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 200 - General Duty to Protect the Health and Safety of Employees; Enforcement.
  200. General duty to protect health and safety of employees; enforcement. 1. All places to which this chapter applies shall be so constructed, equipped, arranged,...
• 200-a - Laws to Be Posted At Airports.
  An airport, as defined in section two hundred forty of the general business law, shall permanently and prominently post signs indicating the increased penalties for...
• 201 - Laws and Orders to Be Posted.
  Wherever persons are employed who are affected by the provisions of this chapter or of the industrial code, the commissioner shall furnish to the employer...
• 201-a - Fingerprinting of Employees Prohibited.
  Except as otherwise provided by law, no person, as a condition of securing employment or of continuing employment, shall be required to be fingerprinted. This...
• 201-b - Fees for Medical Examination.
  1. It shall be unlawful for any employer to require any applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination required by the...
• 201-c - Discrimination in Child-Care Leave Prohibited.
  1. Whenever an employer or governmental agency permits an employee to take a leave of absence upon the birth of such employee's child, an adoptive...
• 201-d - Discrimination Against the Engagement in Certain Activities.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section: a. "Political activities" shall mean (i) running for public office, (ii) campaigning for a candidate for public office,...
• 201-e - Maintenance of Employee-Patient Records At Occupational Health Service Centers.
  No person charged with the custody and care of the health records of employees treated at an on-site employer sponsored occupational health service facility shall...
• 201-f - Posting Regulations on Employment of Persons Previously Convicted of One or More Crimes.
  Every employer shall post in his or her establishment, in a place accessible to his or her employees and in a visually conspicuous manner, a...
• 202 - Protection of the Public and of Persons Engaged At Window Cleaning and Cleaning of Exterior Surfaces of Buildings.
  The owner, lessee, agent and manager of every public building and every contractor involved shall provide such safe means for the cleaning of the windows...
• 202-a - Leave of Absence for Bone Marrow Donations.
  1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Employee" means a person who performs services for hire...
• 202-b - Leave for Organ or Bone Marrow Donation Granted to State Employees.
  1. Any employee of the state of New York shall be allowed up to seven days paid leave to undergo a medical procedure to donate...
• 202-c - Prevention of Personal Injuries in the Use of Ski Tows, Other Passenger Tramways and Downhill Ski Areas.
  The commissioner may make rules, consistent with article eighteen of the general obligations law, guarding against personal injuries to employees and the public in the...
• 202-d - Coin-Operated Machines Performing a Manufacturing Process.
  The commissioner may make such rules governing the construction, maintenance, use, and operation of coin-operated machines which perform any manufacturing process that he or she...
• 202-e - Protection of Persons Employed On/in Vehicular Bridges And/or Tunnels.
  The board of standards and appeals may make such rules as may be necessary for the protection of the lives, health and safety of persons...
• 202-f - Protection of Hotel and Motel Employees Against Fire Hazards in Employee Housing Facilities.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of standards and appeals shall issue a temporary rule governing fire hazards in housing facilities for hotel...
• 202-g - Display of Fuel-Connected Appliances in Wholesale or Retail Store.
  No gas, gasoline or liquefied petroleum gas fueled appliances shall be displayed in a wholesale or retail store when attached to a live fuel source....
• 202-h - High-Voltage Proximity.
  1. This section may be known as the "high-voltage proximity act". 2. Definitions. For the purpose of this section: (a) "High-voltage lines" means electrical conductors...
• 202-i - Leave of Absence for Military Spouses.
  1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Employee" means a person who performs service for hire...
• 202-j - Leave of Absence for Blood Donation Granted to Employees.
  1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Employee" means a person who performs services for hire...
• 202-k - Protection of Persons Employed in the Broadcast Industry.
  1. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Broadcasting industry employer" includes television stations or networks, radio stations or networks, cable stations or networks, internet...
• 202-l - Leave of Absence for Volunteer Emergency Responders.
  1. During the time that an emergency exists following a declaration of such emergency pursuant to section twenty-four or twenty-eight of the executive law, an...
• 202-m - Healthcare Professionals Who Volunteer to Fight the Ebola Virus Disease Overseas.
  * 1. Findings and policy of the state. It is hereby found and declared that the Ebola virus disease is a rare and potentially deadly...
• 203 - Washrooms, Washing Facilities and Waterclosets for Elevator Employees.
  There shall be provided and maintained for the use of all persons employed in operating freight or passenger elevators adequate and convenient washrooms or washing...
• 203-a - Seats in Certain Passenger Elevators or Relief for the Operator.
  Every passenger elevator operated and maintained for use by the public shall be equipped or furnished with a seat, collapsible or otherwise, for the use...
• 203-b - Seats for Female Employees.
  A sufficient number of suitable seats, with backs where practicable, shall be provided and maintained in every factory, mercantile establishment, freight or passenger elevator, hotel...
• 203-c - Employee Privacy Protection.
  1. No employer may cause a video recording to be made of an employee in a restroom, locker room, or room designated by an employer...
• 203-d - Employee Personal Identifying Information.
  1. An employer shall not unless otherwise required by law: (a) Publicly post or display an employee's social security number; (b) Visibly print a social...
• 204 - Inspection of Boilers; Enforcement; Fees; Identification; Exceptions.
  1. Inspection. The commissioner shall cause to be inspected at least once every two years all boilers as defined in this section, except for high...
• 204-b - Refunds.
  Whenever the commissioner determines that any moneys received under the provisions of this chapter or the rules issued thereunder, or any moneys received under the...
• 205 - Prohibition Against Eating Meals in Certain Workrooms.
  No employee shall take or be permitted to take any food into a room of any working place where lead, arsenic or other poisonous substances...
• 206 - Prevention of Personal Injuries to Persons Engaged in Tree Trimming.
  The board of standards and appeals may make rules guarding against personal injuries to persons engaged in cutting, trimming or removing trees or brush for...
• 206-a - Physical Examinations of Females.
  Whenever an employer shall require a physical examination of a female by a physician or a surgeon she shall be entitled to have the examination...
• 206-b - Employment of Females After Child-Birth Prohibited.
  No owner, manager, foreman or other person in authority in a factory or mercantile establishment shall knowingly employ a female, or permit her to be...
• 206-c - Right of Nursing Mothers to Express Breast Milk.
  An employer shall provide reasonable unpaid break time or permit an employee to use paid break time or meal time each day to allow an...
• 207 - Protection of Employees At Switchboards.
  All buildings having installed therein a switchboard of two hundred and twenty volts or over shall have, on the floor or upon the platform or...
• 207-a - Employee Safety in Work on Energized High Voltage Lines.
  1. There shall be no change in the present industry work practices, procedures and standards with regard to bare-hand, live-line techniques or with insulated-glove techniques...
• 208 - Labels, Brands and Marks Used by Labor Organizations.
  1. A bona fide union or association of employees which has adopted a device in the form of a label, brand, mark, name or other...
• 209 - Illegal Use of Labels, Brands and Marks; Injunction Proceedings.
  No person shall in any way use or display the label, brand, mark, name or other character, adopted by any such union or association as...
• 209-a - Fraudulent Representation in Labor Organizations.
  Any person who represents himself or herself to be a member of, or who claims to represent a labor organization which does not exist within...
• 210 - Proceedings for Nonenforcement.
  Any officer, agent or employee of this state or of a municipal corporation therein having a duty to act in the premises who violates, evades...
• 210-a - Legal Duty to Employees.
  It shall be unlawful for any employer to refuse to hire, employ or license, or to discharge from employment, an employee in order to evade...
• 211 - Protection of Employees.
  The commissioner shall cooperate with any employee in the enforcement of a just claim against his employer and for his protection against frauds and other...
• 211-a - Prohibition Against Use of Funds.
  1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that sound fiscal management requires vigilance to ensure that funds appropriated by the legislature for the purchase of...
• 212 - Drinking Water for Farm Laborers.
  Every grower or processor who employs or uses paid farm or food processing workers, whether or not he uses the services of a farm labor...
• 212-a - Migrant Registration Law.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section: a. "Farm labor contractor" includes: (1) Any person who, for a fee, recruits, transports, supplies or hires farm...
• 212-b - Farm Labor Camp Commissaries; Issuance of Permit; Renewal, Refusal, Suspension, and Revocation of Permit; Rules and Regulations.
  1. No person shall operate a farm labor camp commissary, or cause or allow the operation of a farm labor camp commissary, without a permit...
• 212-c - Definitions.
  As used in section two hundred twelve-b: 1. "Persons" includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation. 2. "Farm labor camp commissary" means a place...
• 212-d - Field Sanitation for Farm Hand Workers, Farm Field Workers and Farm Food Processing Workers.
  1. Every grower or processor who employs or uses paid farm hand workers, farm field workers or farm food processing workers, whether or not he...
• 213 - Violations of Provisions of Labor Law; the Rules, Regulations or Orders of the Industrial Commissioner and the Industrial Board of Appeals.
  Any person who violates or does not comply with any provision of the labor law, any rule, regulation or lawful order of the industrial commissioner...
• 213-a - Special Provisions Regarding the Purchasing of Apparel or Sports Equipment by the State University of New York and the City University of New York.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the various units of the state university of New York, the city university of New York and community...
• 214 - Criminal Prosecution.
  The attorney-general may prosecute every person charged with the commission of a criminal offense in violation of this chapter, or of any rule, regulation or...
• 215 - Penalties and Civil Action; Prohibited Retaliation.
  1. (a) No employer or his or her agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, or any other...
• 215-a - Discrimination Against Employees for Failure to Meet Certain Ticket Quotas.
  * 1. No employer or his or her duly authorized agent shall transfer or in any other manner penalize or threaten, expressly or impliedly, an...
• 215-b - Children; Adverse Information; Notification.
  1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Child" means any person under the age of sixteen; (b)...
• 215-c - Discrimination Against Employees for Displaying the American Flag.
  1. No employer, public or private, or such employer's duly authorized agent shall discharge or discriminate against any employee in compensation or in terms, conditions...
• 216 - Failure to Pay Statutory Inspection Fees.
  Any person who fails to pay the statutory fees for the inspection of boilers, as provided in subdivision three of section two hundred four of...
• 217 - Employee Notification and Remittance of Premiums; Group Policies of Accident and Health Insurance.
  1. Statement of public policy. The legislature finds that in today's society health and accident insurance coverage for medical care and treatment is of prime...
• 218 - Violations of Certain Provisions; Civil Penalties.
  1. If the commissioner determines that an employer has violated a provision of article six (payment of wages), article nineteen (minimum wage act), article nineteen-A...
• 218-a - Sun Safety Education for State Employees.
  1. Any state employee who spends more than a total of five hours per week outdoors shall be provided information about (a) the potential dangers...
• 219 - Violations of Certain Wage Payment Provisions; Interest, Filing of Order As Judgment.
  1. If the commissioner determines that an employer has failed to pay wages, benefits or wage supplements required pursuant to article six (payment of wages),...
• 219-a - Affirmation in Lieu of Oath.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any application for a license, permit, registration, certificate or notification required by law to be filed with the department...
• 219-c - Public Notice of Employer Violations.
  The commissioner shall have the following powers: 1. where an employer is found in violation of article six, nineteen or nineteen-A of this chapter, to...

Last modified: February 3, 2019