N.Y. Labor Law § 219-c: Public notice of employer violations

§ 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 post and/or affix for a period not to

exceed one year a notice of no less than eight and one-half by eleven

inches in an area visible to employees summarizing the violations found

and other information deemed pertinent by the commissioner, according to

such form and manner ordered by the commissioner; and

2. where the violation is for a willful failure to pay all wages as

required by article six, nineteen, or nineteen-A of this chapter, to

post and/or affix for a period not to exceed ninety days in an area

visible to the general public, as ordered by the commissioner, a notice

of no less than eight and one-half by eleven inches as to the violations

found, according to such form and manner ordered by the commissioner.

Any person other than the commissioner or the commissioner's duly

authorized representative who removes, alters, defaces or otherwise

interferes with a notice posted and/or affixed under this section shall

be guilty of a misdemeanor.

3. where an order is issued under section two hundred eighteen of this

article that assesses a civil penalty against an employer for a

repeated, willful, or egregious violation, to direct such employer to

report, by location, and to post on the department's website, for such

period as the commissioner shall determine, (a) the number of permanent

full-time employees, the number of temporary full-time employees, the

number of permanent part-time employees, the number of temporary

part-time employees, and the number of temporary staffing agency

employees performing work for the employer; (b) the hourly rates of such

employees reported in the following brackets: the state minimum wage to

$9.99; $10.00 to $11.99; $12.00 to $14.99; and $15.00 or more; (c) the

number of employees who regularly worked the following number of hours

per week during the relevant calendar period: at least sixty; at least

fifty but fewer than sixty; at least forty but fewer than fifty; at

least thirty-five but fewer than forty; at least thirty but fewer than

thirty-five; at least twenty-five but fewer than thirty; at least twenty

but fewer than twenty-five; at least ten but fewer than twenty; at least

five but fewer than ten; fewer than five. No individual identifying

information of such employees shall be reported or otherwise disclosed

to the department. For the purposes of this section "temporary

employees" shall be those employees who are hired for a period of sixty

days or less during the relevant calendar year, full-time employees

shall be those regularly working forty hours or more per week during the

relevant calendar year, part-time employees shall be those working less

than forty hours per week during the relevant calendar year.