{"id":4938,"date":"2021-11-23T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:46:34","slug":"new-york-significantly-expands-protections-for-workplace-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/new-york-significantly-expands-protections-for-workplace-whistleblowers.html","title":{"rendered":"New York Significantly Expands Protections for Workplace Whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York has long lagged behind New Jersey in according protection to employees who blow the whistle on unlawful or unsafe conditions in the workplace. Unlike its sister state, New York employees had a higher bar for achieving protected whistleblower status under section 740 of the New York Labor Law (NYLL), and employers had viable defenses that could undermine an employee\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n<p>On October 29, 2021 Gov. Hochul signed into law amendments to NYLL Section 740 that significantly expand the rights of employees in ways that bring it line with the expansive protections accorded New Jersey employees. These amendments go into effect January 26, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expanded definition of \u201cemployee\u201d:\u00a0 <\/strong>The definition of \u201cemployee\u201d was amended to include not only current employees, but former employees as well as independent contractors providing services to an employer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/new-york-significantly-expands-protections-for-workplace-whistleblowers.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading New York Significantly Expands Protections for Workplace Whistleblowers\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York has long lagged behind New Jersey in according protection to employees who blow the whistle on unlawful or unsafe conditions in the workplace. Unlike its sister state, New York employees had a higher bar for achieving protected whistleblower status under section 740 of the New York Labor Law (NYLL), and employers had viable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[139],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New York Significantly Expands Protections for Workplace Whistleblowers &#8212; November 23, 2021 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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