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NY A00206
Bill
Status
1/5/2011
Primary Sponsor
Barbara Clark
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AI Summary
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Public authorities with 25 or more employees must establish teleworking policies and programs allowing employees to work from home to the maximum extent possible without diminished performance.
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Authorities must designate a "telework coordinator" to oversee program implementation and determine cost-effectiveness before establishing teleworking programs.
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Unionized workforces require collective bargaining before teleworking programs are established for union employees.
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Employee eligibility criteria include: permanent employee status for at least 60 days, ability to complete full job duties remotely, satisfactory performance history, and a signed formal arrangement between employee and employer.
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Teleworking participation cannot be the basis for changes in salary or benefits, and each authority must submit its teleworking policy to the Governor, Assembly Speaker, Senate President, and relevant committee chairs.
Legislative Description
Enacts the "public authorities teleworking expansion act"; provides that each public authority with twenty-five or more employees shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance; defines the term "telework" to mean to perform normal and regular work functions at home that ordinarily would be performed at the authority's location or facility, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such authority's principal location; requires that prior to establishing a teleworking program, each authority shall determine whether or not such program is cost effective; further provides that each participating authority shall then define who is eligible to participate in such program, including, but not limited to the certain conditions and criteria.
Last Action
referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
1/5/2011