New York Enacts Major Expansion of Workplace Health and Safety Standards to Create COVID-Related Protections
By EsqSocial Corporation 12/05/21
Following an eleventh-hour agreement to make “technical changes” to the version of the bill passed by the New York State legislature, Governor Cuomo signed into law the New York Health and Essential Rights Act – also known as the NY HERO Act – to create additional pandemic-related workplace protections. Drafted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Act amends state law to mandate the development and implementation of health and safety standards targeting the spread of all airborne infectious...
By: Fisher Phillips