
The New York Retail Worker Safety Act: Countdown to Compliance
In February 2025, Governor Hochul signed an amendment to the New York Retail Worker Safety Act extending the effective date of some of its provisions to June 2, 2025. The amendment to the New York Retail Worker Safety Act modified several provisions of the legislation, which has an overall purpose of enhancing the safety and well-being of retail workers in the state, to replace panic buttons with silent response buttons, require such buttons for retailers with 500 or more employees statewide, and change the training requirement for smaller retailers.