The New York City Council - File #: Int 1694-2019

• File #: Int 1694-2019
• Version: A
• Name: A center for older workforce development.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• Committee: Committee on Aging
• On agenda: 9/12/2019
• Enactment date: 12/20/2020
• Law number: 2020/123
• Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to a center for older workforce development
• Sponsors: Margaret S. Chin, Diana I. Ayala, Helen K. Rosenthal, Carlina Rivera , Karen Koslowitz, Vanessa L. Gibson, Farah N. Louis, Adrienne E. Adams, Ben Kallos, Mathieu Eugene, Ruben Diaz, Sr., Paul A. Vallone, Deborah L. Rose, Inez D. Barron
• Council Member Sponsors: 14
• Summary: This bill would create an office dedicated to combating ageism in the workplace and to developing the older workforce, called the Center for Older Workforce Development. The Center would be established and placed by the Mayor and led by a Director, whose powers and duties include, for example: advising and assisting the mayor in coordinating agencies involved in workforce development programs for older adults, assisting older adults join or re-join the workforce, creating a centralized workforce development website for older adults, and promoting the inclusion and retention of older adults in the municipal workforce. The Center would additionally be required to submit an annual report to the Mayor and to the City Council on its activities.
• Indexes: Other Appointment Required, Report Required

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
12/21/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
12/20/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
11/19/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
11/19/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
11/19/2020	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Aging	Hearing Held by Committee
11/19/2020	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Aging	Amendment Proposed by Comm
11/19/2020	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Aging	Amended by Committee
11/19/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Aging	Approved by Committee	Pass
10/8/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Laid Over by Committee
10/8/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Hearing Held by Committee
10/8/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Aging	Laid Over by Committee
10/8/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Aging	Hearing Held by Committee
9/12/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
9/12/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1694-A

By Council Member Chin, Ayala, Rosenthal, Rivera, Koslowitz, Gibson, Louis, Adams, Kallos, Eugene, R. Diaz, Vallone, Rose and Barron

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to a center for older workforce development

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Chapter 1 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new section 20-k to read as follows:

§ 20-k. Center for older workforce development. a. The mayor shall establish an office for older adult workforce development, called the center for older workforce development. Such office may be established in the office of the mayor or as a separate office or within any other office of the mayor or within any department the head of which is appointed by the mayor. Such office shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by the mayor or the head of such department. For the purposes of this section, “director” means the director of the center for older workforce development.

b. Powers and duties. The director shall have the power and the duty to:

1. Advise and assist the mayor in planning and implementing for coordination and cooperation among agencies and offices under the jurisdiction of the mayor that are involved in any workforce development program or service for older adults;

2. Coordinate assistance for older adults to join or re-join the workforce, including through programs offering job, language and technological training, job search and application assistance, wraparound employment support and other general career building and job support for older adults;

3. Assess the feasibility of and help foster any public, private or public/private partnerships that develop and implement programs and services for older adult employment;

4. Provide information relevant to older adults in a centralized workforce development website with resources for career building and development and employment support, including a list of city employment and workforce development initiatives and a list of different community based organizations and non-profit organizations that provide such assistance;

5. Provide information on how to report age discrimination in the workplace, including potential municipal and state remedies; 

6. Promote the inclusion and retention of older adults in the workforce by coordinating with the department for the aging and other city agencies, including but not limited to, the commission on human rights, the department of citywide administrative services and the department of small business services, to develop and recommend guidance to address age discrimination in the workplace and to consult on job placements within city agencies for older adults;

8. Provide outreach and education on the services provided by the center; and

9. Perform other duties as the mayor may assign.

c. On or before December 1 of each year, the center shall submit a report of its activities to the mayor and the speaker of the council.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

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