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That seems unlikely, since they do not have legal jurisdiction over say a company in Belgium who is advertising worldwide for employees.

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Intent and reasonably foreseeable outcomes probably matters here.

If that company in Belgium advertises worldwide and somehow hires many people who live in New York, you bet NY will argue (successfully) that they have to follow this law, at least prospectively, as it affects residents of their state and the DoL has jurisdiction over protecting the labor rights of its residents.

What does that mean in practice?

I wonder if they'll also be agreeing to enforce the GDPR because New York companies sell services to Belgium citizens

GDPR is already enforced on American companies serving EU citizens. Only if the American company never intends to do business in the EU can they get away with breaching it.

Apart from just about every cookie banner in existence which is in breach of gdpr and as of yet basically no consequence.

That's equally true of Belgian and New York companies, though.

Yes, however companies are actively being fined for those. It's just that there is a huge amount of websites and not enough resources to prosecute them all at once.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

Hopefully, haven't seen a difference as and end user.

Do you know which of those fines are due to non compliant cookie banners? Had a quick look but I'm not well up enough on GDPR to figure out which fines are for violating which parts of GDPR.

No idea, but IIRC some are. The text is legalese so hard to make out exactly. Then also it's per country, even more complicated. Filing a case also is per country.

Just like anything else: if the belgian company doesn't comply but does any business with the US, then the US can interfere. Now this example is quite irrelevant, the interesting and usual case is a company from any other state hiring a worker remotely and residing in NY. This is straightforward.

They do if the job is listed as being based in NY, which is what this law pertains to.

That makes sense. So it's okay for companies to advertise to NY citizens, for jobs in other states, without complying with this rule.

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