2016 New York Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 25-C - (Labor) THE NEW YORK STATE COMMERCIAL GOODS TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY FAIR PLAY ACT
862-E - Retaliation.

  862-e.  Retaliation.  1.  It  is a violation of this article for an
  employer or any agent of any employer, to retaliate through discharge or
  in any other manner against any person in the terms of conditions of his
  or her employment for exercising any rights granted under  this  article
  for:
(a)  making,  or  threatening  to  make,  a  complaint to an employer,
  co-worker or to a public body that rights guaranteed under this  article
  have been violated;
(b)  causing  to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this
  article; or
(c) providing information to, or testifying before,  any  public  body
  conducting  an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any such violation
  of a law, rule or regulation by such employer. Nothing in  this  section
  shall  limit  the  commissioner's  authority  under  section two hundred
  fifteen of this chapter, or any other statute.
2. Any act of retaliation under this section shall subject an employer
  to the civil penalties under section eight hundred sixty-two-d  of  this
  article, or to a private cause of action, or both.