Senator Andrew Gounardes Took Two Years to Correct a Bill to Protect NYS Workers.
In 2018, NYS wrote stronger laws to stop workplace discrimination and harassment. (See here)
Sadly, the law the politicians passed left out the staff of NYS politicians. In New York State, the staff of elected officials and judges was considered personal staff and was not covered under law.
Infomation:
Andrew Gounardes and some of the other politicians who wrote the bill are attorneys. Why didn’t they check the bill for loopholes before it was submitted?
In 2019, Senator Gounardes and Assemblywoman Yuh-line Niou had a bill to close the loophole.
For the next two years, the two politicians went on Twitter and tweeted about the bill several times a year. Nothing got done because Twitter isn’t real life.
When politicians want a bill to go through, they get a group of people together and protest regularly outside of someone’s office. Gounardes and Niou never organized any protests about this bill (they had time to protest before Covid-19 began in 2020)
How did these two politicians leave their staff and the rest of NYS unprotected for so long? Why weren’t the NYS Democrats motivated to change their mistake?
*This bill covers a small group of people in NYS – it’s not for everyone. It’s just for the staff of judges and politicians BUT ANDREW GOUNARDES ISN’T SAYING THAT – HE’S ACTING LIKE IT IS A BILL FOR EVERYONE! Gounardes is also talking about other bills, but this is the only bill that passed in the Senate and Assembly (he left that out too!) (See here)
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marlene
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