Labor Law Requirements

• Minimum Wage (Required)
• Discrimination (Required)
• Child Labor Laws (Required)
• Employee Voting Leave (Required)
• Fringe Benefits and Hours (Required)
• Blood Donation Leave (Required)
• Breastfeeding (Required)
• Correction Law (Required)
• Unemployment Insurance* (Required)
• Workers’ Compensation* (Required)
• Industry Specific Wage Order** (Required)

• Family and Medical Leave (Required)
• Equal Employment Opportunity (Required)
• USERRA (Required)
• OSHA (Required)
• Federal Minimum Wage (Required)
• Polygraph Protection Test (Required)
• NLRA (Required)

Recent Changes

Minimum Wage, Discrimination, and Minor Labor Law - July 2011

Non-substantive changes made.

Minimum Wage - Discrimination - Child Labor Law - February 2011

On all three notices, there were non-substantive verbiage change.

NY Hospitality Industry Wage Order - January 2011

The New York Hospitality Industry Wage Order is a new notice that must be posted for Hospitality/Food Service employees (including both Hotel and Restaurant Food service employees). It denotes the current minimum wage and overtime pay rules. It also replaces both the Restaurant and the Hotel Industries' Wage Orders.
NY Hospitality Industry Wage Order is a separate poster available in our Specialty Poster section and is NOT included on the NY All-In-One poster

Discrimination - September 2009

Being a victim of domestic violence is now a protected characteristic under New York’s anti-discrimination statute.

Minimum Wage - July 2009

Effective July 24, 2009, the minimum wage in the state of New York will increase from $7.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour.
This was a Substantive change

New York Wage Order: Building Services, Restaurant, Hotel, and Miscellaneous - July 2009

The wage rates and allowances listed in the wage orders now reflect the minimum wage increase of $7.25, effective July 24, 2009. This change affects the NY Building Services, Restaurant, Hotel, and Miscellaneous wage orders.
This was a substantive change. New NY Building Services, Restaurant, Hotel, and Miscellaneous wage orders are required.

Discrimination - Spanish - April 2009

Non-substantive formatting change.

Criminal Convictions - Right to Breastfeed - Blood Donation Leave - February 2009

• Criminal Convictions - Employers in the state of New York will be required to post a copy of the New York Correction Law relating to employment of persons with prior criminal convictions under a new law that takes effect on February 1, 2009.
• Right to Breastfeed - All employers shall provide reasonable unpaid break time or permit an employee to use paid break time or meal break time each day to allow an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for up to three years following child birth. The employer shall make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other location, in close proximity to the work area, where an employee can express milk in privacy. This law is applicable to all public and private employers in the state of New York, regardless of the size or nature of their business.
• Blood Donation Leave - All employers shall provide leave time to employees for the purpose of donating blood. Leave granted to employees for off-premises blood donation is not required to be paid leave. Leave taken by employees for donation leave alternatives shall be paid leave and given without requiring the employee to use accumulated vacation, personal, sick or other already existing leave time.
This was a Substantive change