"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 ...

California adopted workplace safety legislation earlier this year, but it didn’t have a panic button provision. In New York, this element of the law will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027. The RSWA, which ...

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 ...

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 ...