On December 21, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Warehouse Worker Protection Act (WWPA) into law. The WWPA is intended to protect warehouse workers from unreasonably demanding work quotas and goes into effect on February 19, 2023.
As detailed in this post, the WWPA establishes new requirements for distribution centers to disclose work speed data to current and former employees and to inform workers about their performance and rights in the workplace. The law also protects workers from adverse employment actions because of a failure to meet undisclosed speed quotes or quotas that do not allow for proper breaks. Some key aspects of the WWPA are as follows:
- Which employers are covered? The WWPA applies to employers with 100 or more employees at a single warehouse distribution center or 500 or more employees at one or more warehouse distribution centers.
