Regulators have increased their focus on addressing workplace violence risks, including some with particular attention to ...

Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) has opposed the New York legislature’s new law requiring store panic buttons to enhance retail worker safety. The New York State Senate recently passed legislation ...

As we explained in a previous blog post, last fall, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the New York Retail Worker Safety Act (NYRWSA) into law, ...

Kathy Hochul (D) signed a new law Thursday that requires large retailers to add silent alarms ... draft of the bill described the alarms as “panic buttons,” but the finalized text of the ...

Kathy Hochul passed new protections aimed at helping frontline retail workers and ... a bill in Albany to make it law, mandatory, that bodegas have a panic button,” Mateo said.