ALBANY — New York will ban most nondisclosure agreements and mandatory arbitration in sexual harassment complaints, and will require government employees found responsible for committing harassment to refund any taxpayer-financed payouts, according to a revision of state laws adopted by the Legislature on Friday.
Senator Catharine Young, a Republican from western New York who helped write the Senate’s original draft of the bill, called the measures “a major victory.”
“We’re going to protect everyone across the board, so I’m very very enthused about the fact that we have gotten it done,” she told reporters on Friday.
But the failure of the bills to actually define sexual harassment led some women’s rights advocates and employment lawyers to warn that the policies could be narrowly interpreted. They said the language should have incorporated a more expansive understanding of gender-based discrimination, as well.
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