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NY S04580
Bill
Status
2/10/2023
Primary Sponsor
Leroy Comrie
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AI Summary
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Establishes the "New York City Teleworking Expansion Act" to address traffic congestion, mass transit overcrowding, and air quality concerns in the NYC metropolitan region.
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Requires each city agency to establish a teleworking policy allowing employees to perform duties remotely to the maximum extent possible without diminishing performance.
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Mandates each agency designate a telework coordinator, develop written performance standards with clear productivity metrics, and conduct periodic evaluations of telework arrangements.
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Defines telework eligibility based on reasonable assessment of job tasks with input from employee organizations, applied consistently across employees in the same title or category.
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Takes effect 180 days after becoming law and does not supersede existing collective bargaining agreements, residency requirements, or leave policies.
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
6/7/2024