New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a new law requiring retailers to boost safety protections for store workers, including requiring major chains to add panic buttons in all New York ...

Panic Button Starting January 1, 2027, retail employers with 500 or more retail employees nationwide will be required to provide access to panic buttons in easily accessible locations throughout ...

Retailers in New York State have only six months to be in compliance with most of the provisions of a new law designed to enhance workplace safety for retail workers.

New York law now mandates that major retail stores add ‘panic buttons’ for workers Your Walmart cashier might have a new button under their register soon. SHARE ...

Here's what to know. What does the newly passed NY retail safety law require? In a certain section of the act, access to panic buttons in New York locations of retail stores with 500 or more ...

From the legislation: “‘Panic button’ means a physical button installed in easily accessible locations throughout the workplace, or a wearable, or mobile phone-based button that when pressed ...

On September 5, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Retail Worker Safety Act (“Act” and “Legislation”), which in 6 months, will impose a series of new obligations on ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Toiletries are locked behind plexiglass in a store in New York, U.S., November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Arriana McLymore/File Photo ...

A bill intended to increase retail worker safety and prevent workplace violence, which was heartily opposed by a major retailer earlier this year, was signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul ...