2019 New York Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 19-A - Minimum Wage Standards and Protective Labor Practices for Farm Workers
680 - Penalties.

§ 680. Penalties.  1. Discrimination against employee. Any employer or
  his agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation, who discharges or
  in  any  other  manner  discriminates  against any employee because such
  employee has made a complaint to his employer, or to the commissioner or
  his authorized representative, that he has not been paid  in  accordance
  with the provisions of this article, or because such employee has caused
  to  be  instituted  a  proceeding  under  or related to this article, or
  because such employee has  testified  or  is  about  to  testify  in  an
  investigation  or  proceeding  under  this article, shall be guilty of a
  misdemeanor and upon conviction be punished by a fine of not  less  than
  fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.
2.  Payment  of  less than minimum wage. Any employer or his agent, or
  the officer or agent of any corporation, who pays or agrees  to  pay  to
  any  employee  less than the wage applicable under this article shall be
  guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be punished by a fine of not
  less than fifty dollars  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  or  by
  imprisonment  of  not less than ten nor more than ninety days or by both
  such fine and imprisonment, and each payment to any employee in any week
  of less than the wage applicable under this article shall  constitute  a
  separate offense.
3.  Failure to keep records. Any employer or his agent, or the officer
  or agent of any corporation, who fails  to  keep  the  records  required
  under  this  article  or  to  furnish  such  records  or any information
  required to be furnished under this article to the commissioner  or  his
  authorized  representative  upon  request,  or who hinders or delays the
  commissioner or his authorized representative in the performance of  his
  duties  in  the  enforcement  of  this  article, or refuses to admit the
  commissioner  or  his  authorized  representative  to   any   place   of
  employment,  or  falsifies  any  such  records  or  refuses to make such
  records accessible to the commissioner or his authorized representative,
  or refuses to furnish a sworn statement of such  records  or  any  other
  information  required  for the proper enforcement of this article to the
  commissioner or his authorized representative,  shall  be  guilty  of  a
  misdemeanor  and  upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than
  fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and each day's failure
  to keep the records required under  this  article  or  to  furnish  such
  records   or   information   to   the  commissioner  or  his  authorized
  representative shall constitute a separate offense.