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New York’s latest legislative push is revisiting workplace safety prevention. The state will no longer tolerate the rising normalization of workplace violence in its public-sector offices, schools, and instituti
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ns. On February 10, 2025, Assembly Bill A4936 was introduced to reshape how public employers prevent and handle workplace violence. This isn’t just another bureaucratic push; it’s a deliberate expansion of an existing framework on workplace violence
prevention. Why a Stronger Workplace Violence Prevention Prog
ram Matters The bill revises Section 27-b of New York’s Labor Law, a statute that has since 2006 required public employers with 20 or more full-time employees to