{"id":"SEC-12-067","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"12","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"New York State Department of Labor; Commissioner of Health (designation); Governor Kathy Hochul","authority":"N.Y. Labor Law § 218-b (NY HERO Act, L. 2021, ch. 105, as amended by ch. 172)","instrument":"NY HERO Act: Airborne Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention Standard and Model Plans (July 6, 2021); designation of COVID-19 as a highly contagious communicable disease (Sept. 6, 2021)","title":"NYS HERO Act - Protecting Workers from Airborne Disease (DOL page as of Sept. 10, 2021)","dateIssued":"2021-09-06","effective":"Plans to be adopted by Aug. 5, 2021; activated Sept. 6, 2021","end":"Designation ended Mar. 17, 2022 (post-period)","startDate":"2021-08-05","endDate":"2022-03-17","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","MASK","QUAR"],"addressees":["all private employers in New York State"],"clause":"On September 6, 2021, Governor Kathy Hochul announced the designation of COVID-19 as an airborne infectious disease under the HERO Act. This designation requires all employers to implement workplace safety plans.","enforcement":"Labor Law § 218-b penalties; employee private right of action","functions":["OF activation of exposure prevention plans in every New York office (screening, masks, distancing, cleaning)","CS","WF"],"notes":"The New York office instrument of Q3 2021: no employer in the State could operate its office in September 2021 as it had in 2019","sourceUrl":"https://dol.ny.gov/ny-hero-act","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210910203731/https://dol.ny.gov/ny-hero-act","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":220208,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-12","url":"/library/SEC-12-067","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-12-067","citation":"New York State Department of Labor; Commissioner of Health (designation); Governor Kathy Hochul, NY HERO Act: Airborne Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention Standard and Model Plans (July 6, 2021); designation of COVID-19 as a highly contagious communicable disease (Sept. 6, 2021) (Ex. SEC-12-067)","stateName":"New York","related":[]}