"Retail workers should not go to work every day in fear, this law goes a long way toward ending that." Here's what to know. In a certain section of the act, access to panic buttons in New York ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a new law requiring retailers to boost safety protections for store workers, including requiring major chains to add panic buttons in all New York ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a new law that requires retailers with more than 500 employees to install panic buttons in all locations in the state by ...

But employers could also stipulate that employees have an application on their phones with a built-in panic button, too. The new law had support from labor groups, including the Retail Wholesale ...

Under the new law, companies with 50 or more retail employees must install panic buttons, which the legislation defines as “a physical button that when pressed immediately dispatches local law ...

Panic button alerts are also far less useful ... when she secured $45 million in the state budget to form a retail crime task force led by law enforcement. The budget also made it a felony to ...

and panic buttons will need to be accessible or operational in New York locations by January 1, 2027. The new law stipulates that a retail store is one that “sells consumer commodities at ...