04/20/21 WorkersCompensation.com Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - Speaker Carl Heastie, Labor Committee Chair Latoya Joyner and Assemblymember Karines Reyes today announced that the Assembly has passed the Hero Act, which will establish health and safety standards to protect New Yorkers from airborne infectious diseases in the workplace (A.2681-B, Reyes). “New Yorkers – especially those who have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic – need and deserve to have health and safety protections in place when they go into work,” Speaker Heastie said. “We saw how quickly an airborne disease like COVID-19 was able to spread through workplaces. This is a lifesaving measure that will protect millions of workers who are the backbone of our economy.”