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NY S05536
Bill
Status
3/10/2021
Primary Sponsor
Leroy Comrie
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AI Summary
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Requires each New York City agency to establish a teleworking policy and program allowing employees to perform duties remotely to the maximum extent possible without diminished performance.
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Mandates each agency designate a telework coordinator and develop written performance standards with clear metrics for productivity success and failure under remote work arrangements.
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Defines telework as performing normal work functions at a location other than the agency's principal location, reducing or eliminating physical commutes while respecting existing city residency requirements.
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Establishes teleworking eligibility based on reasonable assessment of job tasks by title or category, with input from recognized employee organizations and fair application across employees in the same category.
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Takes effect 90 days after enactment and does not supersede existing collective bargaining agreements or policies related to employee injuries, illnesses, disabilities, or earned leave usage.
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
COMMITTED TO RULES
6/3/2022