No hiring party, as defined in this article, shall threaten, intimidate, discipline, harass, deny a work opportunity to, or discriminate against a freelance worker, or take any other action that penalizes a freelance worker for, or is reasonably likely to deter a freelance worker from, exercising or attempting to exercise any right guaranteed under this article, or from obtaining any future work opportunity because the freelance worker has done so.
N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 1413