N.Y. Executive Law § 170-i: Gender-based violence and the workplace

§ 170-i. Gender-based violence and the workplace. 1. Each state agency

shall formulate and issue a gender-based violence and the workplace

policy for such agency. In formulating such policy, the state agency

shall refer to the model gender-based violence and the workplace policy

distributed by the office for the prevention of domestic violence

pursuant to subdivision eleven of section five hundred seventy-five of

this chapter, and adopt its provisions as appropriate.

2. Each state agency shall designate at least one domestic violence

agency liaison who shall ensure agency compliance with the domestic

violence provisions of the gender-based violence and the workplace

policy, be trained to assist victimized employees, and serve as the

primary contact for the policy distributed by the agency.

3. Each state agency, in formulating or revising its gender-based

violence and the workplace policy, shall give due regard to the

importance of increasing awareness of gender-based violence and

informing employees of available resources for assistance; clearly

specifying how to reach the domestic violence agency liaison; ensuring

that personnel policies and procedures are fair to domestic and

gender-based violence victims and survivors, and responsive to their

needs; developing workplace safety response plans; complying with state

and federal law including restrictions of possession of firearms by a

person convicted of a domestic violence related crime or subject to an

order of protection; encouraging and promoting gender-based violence

education and training for employees; and holding accountable employees

who misuse state resources or authority or violate their job duties in

committing an act of gender-based violence. Each state agency, when it

issues its gender-based violence and the workplace policy, shall provide

a copy of that policy and the information for its designated domestic

violence agency liaison to the office for the prevention of domestic

violence, and shall notify the office of any subsequent modifications of

the policy or the contact information for the domestic violence agency

liaison.

4. (a) Every covered employee shall participate in a gender-based

violence and the workplace training developed by the office for the

prevention of domestic violence and made available on the statewide

learning management system annually.

(b) As used in this subdivision, "covered employee" shall mean all

officers and employees working in the executive chamber in the office of

the governor and New York State agencies who supervise other officers

and employees, who serve as the domestic violence agency liaison, or who

are employed in a human resources position. "Officers and employees"

shall have the meaning given to "state officer or employee" in section

seventy-three of the public officers law.

5. Each state agency shall cooperate with the office for the

prevention of domestic violence and furnish such information, reporting,

and assistance as the office determines is reasonably necessary to

accomplish the purposes of this section.