N.Y. MIL Law § 318

§ 318. Policy of the state. 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy\nof the state that citizens and residents of the state should not be\ndiscriminated against because they are subject to military duty pursuant\nto this chapter or the laws of the United States or both; and that\npersons doing business in the state should not refuse to employ such\npersons because they are so subject to military duty.\n 2. (a) No person shall solicit, require, demand or otherwise request\nthat a person waive any of his or her rights under this article, whether\nexisting at that time or thereafter to accrue.\n (b) Any person who shall knowingly violate paragraph (a) of this\nsubdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by\nimprisonment not to exceed one year, or by fine not to exceed one\nthousand dollars, or both such imprisonment and fine, and shall be\nfurther subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed five\nthousand dollars for each occurrence. Such penalty may be recovered in\nan action brought by the attorney general in any court of competent\njurisdiction.\n (c) Any waiver entered into in violation of this subdivision shall not\nbe deemed to be binding on any person in military service who executed\nsuch waiver.\n