New York enacts the "trapped at work act" to prohibit employers from requiring workers to sign employment promissory notes.

The New York "trapped at work act" prohibits employers from requiring workers or prospective workers to execute employment promissory notes as a condition of employment. Such notes, which require a worker to pay the employer for property sold or leased to them, are deemed unconscionable, against public policy, and unenforceable. The act allows exceptions for agreements where workers repay sums advanced by employers, unless those sums were used for training, or if the agreement is part of a program agreed to by the employer and workers' collective bargaining representative.

New York enacts the "trapped at work act" to prohibit employers from requiring workers to sign employment promissory notes.

The New York "trapped at work act" prohibits employers from requiring workers or prospective workers to execute employment promissory notes as a condition of employment. Such notes, which require a worker to pay the employer for property sold or leased to them, are deemed unconscionable, against public policy, and unenforceable. The act allows exceptions for agreements where workers repay sums advanced by employers, unless those sums were used for training, or if the agreement is part of a program agreed to by the employer and workers' collective bargaining representative.