{"id":"DUT-NY-013","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"New York State Legislature (Labor Law, article 7, general provisions)","authority":"N.Y. Const. art. I, § 17; police power; Labor Law of 1921 (L. 1921, ch. 50), as amended","instrument":"N.Y. Labor Law § 200 (general duty to protect health and safety of employees; enforcement)","title":"General duty to protect health and safety of employees; enforcement","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers; owners or persons in control of places of employment; protects employees and \u0027all persons... lawfully frequenting such places\u0027"],"clause":"1. All places to which this chapter applies shall be so constructed, equipped, arranged, operated and conducted as to provide reasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health and safety of all persons employed therein or lawfully frequenting such places.","enforcement":"§ 200(2): the Commissioner of Labor may post a notice prohibiting \u0027further work in or occupancy of such area until the dangerous condition is corrected\u0027; civil liability in negligence (the section codifies the common-law duty); Labor Law civil penalties","functions":[],"notes":"Every employer and owner of a place of employment to operate and conduct it so as to provide \u0027reasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health and safety\u0027 of employees and of all persons \u0027lawfully frequenting such places\u0027 (customers, vendors, visitors), the standing duty into which the Department of Health\u0027s COVID-19 protocols supplied the content, and the duty the Attorney General sued Amazon to enforce (Ex. DUT-NY-020).","sourceUrl":"https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._labor_law_section_200","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":191993,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-NY","url":"/library/DUT-NY-013","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-NY-013","citation":"New York State Legislature (Labor Law, article 7, general provisions), N.Y. Labor Law § 200 (general duty to protect health and safety of employees; enforcement) (standing) (Ex. DUT-NY-013)","stateName":"New York","related":["DUT-NY-020","DUT-NY-017"]}