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NY A02052
Bill
Status
1/23/2023
Primary Sponsor
Latoya Joyner
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AI Summary
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Requires terminating call center contractors to provide successor contractors with a list of all call center employees at least 30 days before contract termination and to post this information to affected workers.
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Mandates successor call center contractors retain all employees from the former contractor for a 90-day transition period, with layoffs based on seniority if fewer workers are needed, and prohibits discharge without cause during this period.
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Requires governmental bodies to ensure new call center service contracts include worker retention obligations and that new work sites be reasonably accessible (within 10 miles or 30 minutes travel time) to existing employees.
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Provides remedies for workers discharged or not retained in violation of the law, including reinstatement, back pay with equal liquidated damages, benefit costs, and attorney's fees.
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Exempts successor contractors from these requirements if they assume the former contractor's collective bargaining agreement or if employees are accreted into an existing union with comparable protections.
Legislative Description
Prevents the displacement of call center workers who provide call center services for the government in certain circumstances; provides protections for call center workers when contracts with call center contractors are terminated; requires new call center contractors to hire existing call center workers; protects collective bargaining agreements.
Last Action
enacting clause stricken
1/10/2024