NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Retail workers hail New York’s new panic-button law But the bill signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, which requires a host of safety measures to address store-based crime, was opposed by key trade groups.

The United Bodegas Workers of America are renewing urgent calls for ‘life-saving’ panic buttons and real-time NYPD monitoring in every corner store across the city after two violent inc… ...

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 ...