File #: Int 1025-2024    Version: * Name: Provision of information regarding employment discrimination and older adult workforce programs.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Aging
On agenda: 9/12/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the provision of information regarding employment discrimination and older adult workforce programs
Sponsors: Crystal Hudson, Lincoln Restler, Tiffany Cabán, Mercedes Narcisse, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis, Chi A. Ossé, Rita C. Joseph, Lynn C. Schulman
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Summary: This bill would require the New York City (NYC) Department for the Aging (DFTA) to provide information regarding older adult workforce programs administered by DFTA to all contracted older adult centers and clients of all contracted providers. This bill would also require that DFTA develop, publish, and distribute a pamphlet to all older adult workforce program participants about programming and resources available to assist or otherwise support older adults seeking employment and volunteer opportunities. The pamphlet would include information to assist older adults in identifying and addressing employment discrimination, as well as the name, address, contact information, and website of relevant government agencies or community-based organizations that an older adult may contact to obtain additional information about issues regarding employment discrimination.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1025, 2. Int. No. 1025, 3. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-12-24, 4. September 12, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Committee Report 9/23/24
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Int. No. 1025

 

By Council Members Hudson, Restler, Cabán, Narcisse, Hanif, Louis, Ossé, Joseph and Schulman

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the provision of information regarding employment discrimination and older adult workforce programs

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-215 to read as follows:

§ 21-215 Provision of information regarding older adult workforce programs. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Client. The term “client” means an older adult to whom direct services are provided by the department or by a person that contracts with the department to provide such services.

Older adult. The term “older adult” means a person 60 years of age or older.

Older adult workforce program. The term “older adult workforce program” means a program administered by the department for the purpose of connecting older adults to employment or volunteer opportunities.

b. Provision of information regarding older adult workforce programs. The department shall make available to all clients information regarding older adult workforce programs. Such information shall describe all such programs and provide eligibility guidelines for such programs. The department shall make such information available to clients in paper form at all locations where the department, or a person contracting with the department, provides services to clients.

c. Publication of information. The department shall post, and update as necessary, the information required by subdivision b of this section on the department's website and shall post a link to such information on the 311 citizen center website. The department shall make such information available in the designated citywide languages as defined in section 21-211.

d. Pamphlet. The department shall develop and publish a pamphlet written in English, using clear and accessible language, to educate older adult workforce program participants about programming and resources available to support older adults seeking employment and volunteer opportunities. Such pamphlet shall include information, as determined by the department in consultation with relevant agencies, to assist older adults in identifying and addressing discrimination in employment, as well as the name, address, contact information, and website of government agencies and community-based organizations that provide information or assistance to older adults in relation to discrimination in employment. Such pamphlet shall be provided to each older adult workforce program participant. The department shall update the information in such pamphlet annually.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

CTP

LS #15401/15402

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