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• Airborne Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention Plan (AIDEPP), aims to protect private sector employees and the public against exposure and disease during a future airborne infectious disease outbreak.

• Workplace Safety Committee (WSP) requires a private sector employer to permit employees to create such a committee.

• Emergency Preparedness Law (EPL) requires public employers (State, City, Town, County) to adopt a plan for operations, employee protection in the event of a declared public health emergency involving a communicable disease or other natural or man-made event that disrupts normal operating procedures and delays services to be provided to the public. (Federal entities and Schools (NYS Education) are not covered)

• Warehouse Worker Protection Law (WWPA) requires employers at distribution centers (of a certain size and within certain NAICS codes) to provide work speed data to employees and inform them if they are subject to a work quota. These employers also need to have an Injury Reduction Program in place to address ergonomics and eliminate or reduce any repetitive motion injuries.

• Retail Worker Safety (RWS) requires retail employers to provide a retail workplace violence prevention policy and provide their employees with retail workplace violence prevention training.

• COVID Paid Sick Leave (CPSL) Law grants job protection and paid leave to eligible New York employees impacted by orders of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19.

• Construction Industry Fatality Registry (CFR) law requires the New York State Department of Labor to maintain a public registry of workplace fatalities in the construction industry based on reports it receives from county coroners, medical examiners, and other authorized officials whose role is to register deaths.

AIRBORNE INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPOSURE PREVENTION PLANNYS Labor Law Section 218-b, "Prevention of occupational exposure to an airborneinfectious disease" from the New York Health and Essential Rights Act was signedinto law on May 5th 2021. The law mandates extensive workplace health and safetyprotections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of Labor Law 218-bis to protect employees against exposure and disease during a future airborneinfectious disease outbreak.The New York State Department of Labor (NYS DOL), in consultation with the NYSDepartment of Health, has developed an Airborne Infectious Disease ExposurePrevention Standard, a Model Airborne Infectious Disease Exposure PreventionPlan, and various industry-specific model plans for the prevention of airborneinfectious disease. Employers can choose to adopt the applicable policytemplate/plan provided by NYS DOL or establish an alternative plan that meets orexceeds the standard’s minimum requirements.The airborne infectious disease exposure prevention plans must be implementedwhen an airborne infectious disease is designated by the New York StateCommissioner of Health as a highly contagious communicable disease that presentsa serious risk of harm to the public health. When designated, employers arerequired to provide a copy of the adopted airborne infectious disease exposureprevention plan and post the same in a visible and prominent location withineach worksite.More Information can be found at:

• Airborne Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention Plan

• WORKPLACE SAFETY COMMITTEESNew York State’s Workplace Safety Committees law provides for the adoption ofrules and regulations for workplace safety committees under New York State LaborLaw Section 27-d. This law is effective as of November 1, 2021. As of thisdate, employers are required to permit workers to establish and administer ajoint labor-management workplace safety committee upon request.More Information can be found at:

• Workplace Safety Committee Law

• EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS LAWThe Emergency Preparedness Law, requires public employers to have a written planfor operations in the event of any declared public health emergency. All publicemployees should have access to this plan.More Information can be found here:

• Emergency Preparedness Law

• WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION LAWThe Warehouse Worker Protection Law requires employers in certain warehousedistribution centers to provide their employees quota information and mustestablish and implement an injury reduction program. Under the law, there areemployer requirements as well as new rights for warehouse employees.The law requires distribution centers to disclose work speed data to current andformer employees to inform them about their job performance and rights in theworkplace. The legislation also protects workers from disciplinary action orfiring exclusively because of a failure to meet undisclosed speed quotes orquotas that do not allow for proper breaks. The law also requires writtenworksite evaluation that identifies and assesses ergonomic risk factors, as wellas the actions taken to reduce those factors. Injury reduction training foremployees is also required. Workers are also protected from retaliation formaking a complaint if they believe a quota violates their right to proper breaktime or the employer does not have a compliant injury reduction program.More Information can be found here:

• Warehouse Worker Protection Law (WWPA)

• RETAIL WORKER SAFETYThe Retail Worker Safety law was created by New York State legislation, LaborLaw Section 27-e. This law requires all employers who employ 10 or more retailemployees in New York State to implement strategies to reduce the risk ofworkplace violence to their employees and increase employee safety. Allemployers covered by the Act must adopt a retail workplace violence preventionpolicy and provide their employees with retail workplace violence preventiontraining.More Information can be found here:

• Retail Worker Safety

• COVID PAID SICK LEAVEMost employers in New York State were required to provide up to 5 or 14 days ofjob protected, paid COVID-19 sick leave to employees who needed to take leavebecause they were under a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine orisolation due to COVID-19. The amount of COVID-19 sick leave an employer wasrequired to provide depends on the number of employees they have and theemployer’s net annual income.You may file a complaint here.Please note: The COVID-19 quarantine leave legislation expired on July 31, 2025.Please note: Due to CDC and NYSDOH guidance updates, the previously publishedNYSDOH forms titled “Affirmation of Quarantine” and “Affirmation of Isolation”are no longer accepted in support of COVID Paid Sick Leave claims as of March 7,2024.Specific Orders of Isolation or Quarantine issued by the State of New York, theDepartment of Health, local board of health, or any governmental entity dulyauthorized to issue such order due to COVID-19 remained valid and must beprovided for claims taking place between March 7, 2024 to July 30, 2025.

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FATALITY REGISTRYConstruction Industry Fatality Registry was created by New York Statelegislation, Labor Law Section 44. This law requires the NewYork State Department of Labor (NYS DOL) to maintain a public registry ofworkplace fatalities in the construction industry based on reports it receivesfrom county coroners, medical examiners, and other authorized officials whoserole is to register deaths. Contractors facing a work-related fatal injury intheir workplace will also need to provide information to NYS DOL. More Information can be found here:

• Construction Industry Fatality Registry

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