An assistant principal who served as the “sexual harassment prevention” chief at a top Queens public school was removed this month after 13 girls accused him of creepy behavior and comments ...

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s report found about three-quarters of Town of Amherst employees did not complete sexual harassment prevention training in 2021.

Sexual harassment is illegal and is a form of workplace discrimination under state law. The law requires employees to receive sexual harassment prevention training annually.

The state comptroller conducted audits on both the Town of Amherst and the City of Niagara Falls and found state-mandated sexual harassment training to be lacking in 2021.

New York State requires all employers to provide annual sexual harassment prevention training and a harassment policy to its employees. This requirement applies to all employees, including hourly and ...

The law requires sexual harassment prevention training to be updated every five years, something New York State Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon supports.

New York first put a statewide harassment policy in place in 2018, requiring employers of all sizes to create a sexual harassment prevention plan and provide training to workers. The new training ...

New York’s sexual harassment policies for employers were developed pre-pandemic in 2018. The policy is meant to provide for employers and workers, regardless of a company's or nonprofit’s size, a ...

The New York State Department of Labor announced an in-person public hearing to receive feedback from workers, employers, and other stakeholders regarding the state’s Sexual Harassment Prevention ...

“Thousands” of MTA employees did not complete New York state’s mandatory sexual harassment training in 2017 and 2019, the authority’s inspector general said Wednesday.

Just 58% of subway employees and 43% of Metro-North employees in 2019 completed training on sexual harassment prevention required by state law, according to the report.