Employees who had to endure the painstaking process of filing a complaint to raise concerns about safety and health in the workplace now have a different avenue to bring up such issues.
The New York Health and Essential Rights Act (HERO Act) gave workers at companies with 10 or more employees the right to organize workplace safety committees as of Nov. 1.
“It’s workers that know how the work is actually getting done and if they’re able to have a seat at the table in terms of making some of those changes, or advocating for those workplace changes, that would improve the health and safety conditions for workers,” Rossana Coto-Batres, Director of the Northeast NY Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) said.
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