Establishes the New York state taxi medallion guaranty program act to assist taxi medallion owners who are otherwise unable to obtain financing, refinancing, or restructuring of an existing loan.
Repeals a provision excluding kindergartens, pre-kindergartens, or nursery schools for children three years of age or older, or after-school programs for children operated by a public school district or by a private school or academy which is providing elementary or secondary education or both from the definition of child day care.
Relates to penalties for wilful false statements by employers to avoid payment of unemployment benefits.
Relates to establishing the tenancy deposit protection program; requires the commissioner of housing and community renewal to establish a program to hold security deposits in third-party accounts and create a dispute resolution process regarding the withholding of security deposits.
Prohibits employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant who has not been offered employment and prohibits municipalities from requiring employers to use the federal electronic employment verification system.
Relates to providing language access services; requires the workers' compensation board to provide for translation of documents and interpretation services and to publish a language access plan.
Relates to administration of language assessment instruments to students receiving a program of bilingual education or English as a second language.
Permits certain minors to be employed as a referee, umpire or official at a youth sporting event; limits a minor 12 or 13 years of age to one youth sporting event per week.
Prohibits non-compete agreements and certain restrictive covenants which unreasonably and unfairly bar or inhibit post-employment competition and protects certain workers from inappropriate and unnecessary restrictions on future employment.
Relates to requiring employers to obtain an acknowledgement of receipt from employees of their sexual harassment prevention policy and sexual harassment prevention training program in writing in English and in employees' primary languages; requires employers to obtain acknowledgements from employees and keep such acknowledgements for six years.
