New York City Mandates New "Workers' Bill of Rights" Notice

Author: Robert S. Teachout, Brightmine Legal Editor 

December 15, 2023 

Employers in New York City will soon be required to post a Workers' Bill of Rights notice in their workplaces.  

Under the recently passed "Workers' Bill of Rights" bill, employers will be required to provide employees by no later than July 1, 2024, information about rights that apply to employees under relevant federal, state and local laws that apply to employees, prospective employees and independent contractors.  

The notice must also indicate which rights apply to workers regardless of their immigration status and include information about employees' right to organize a union. After July 1, employers must give this information to employees on their first day of work. 

The new law also requires employers to conspicuously post in the workplace an as-yet-unpublished notice of the required information, as well as online and on an employer's mobile application if such systems are regularly used to communicate with employees. This notice will be created and published by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) by March 1, 2024. 

The notice must be in English and in any language spoken as a primary language by at least five percent of the employer's employees, if the DCWP commissioner has made the information available in that language.  

Failure to comply with ordinance's requirements will subject an employer to a $500 penalty for the second and any subsequent violation.