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NY S05650
Bill
Status
5/9/2019
Primary Sponsor
Leroy Comrie
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AI Summary
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Establishes the "New York City Teleworking Expansion Act" requiring each city agency to develop a teleworking policy and program allowing employees to perform duties remotely to the maximum extent possible without reducing performance.
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Mandates each agency designate a "telework coordinator" responsible for overseeing and implementing teleworking programs.
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Defines "telework" as performing normal work functions on a workday at a location other than the agency's principal location, eliminating or substantially reducing physical commutes.
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Identifies traffic congestion, mass transit overcrowding, and health and safety concerns in the New York City metropolitan region as justification for the teleworking program.
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law.
Legislative Description
Enacts the "New York city teleworking expansion act"; provides that each agency 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 on a workday that ordinarily would be performed at the agency's principal location at a different location, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such agency's principal location.
Last Action
REFERRED TO CITIES
1/8/2020