What's happening
This bill creates a pilot program dividing some state jobs into sub-positions for people with developmental disabilities who can't perform full job duties.
Why it matters
Creates flexible job opportunities for individuals with more severe developmental disabilities. who are typically unable to access traditional or even existing disability hiring programs, allowing them to contribute based on their abilities rather than being excluded entirely from state employment.
Introduces “job carving” and “task reassignment” as official employment practices. within state jobs, legitimizing the customization of roles to suit both the needs of the individual and the employer, and potentially setting a precedent for broader workplace inclusion strategies.
Limits compensation and benefits for these positions. (minimum wage, no health or pension benefits), which may raise concerns about pay equity and long-term job security for participants, but still provides a structured entry point into the workforce.
Requires ongoing evaluation and reporting to the legislature. on the effectiveness of the pilot, ensuring oversight and the possibility of transitioning from a temporary experiment to a permanent program if successful, which could influence future disability employment policy statewide.
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Who cares
People with developmental disabilities
Those unable to perform all duties of a traditional position and otherwise ineligible because of disability severity could obtain customized temporary jobs paying minimum wage without health, pension or other additional benefits.
Civil Service Commission
The commission would establish a demonstration program covering no more than 15 traditional positions, dividing them into sub-positions tailored to candidates’ strengths and interests and employers’ needs.
Existing civil service employees
The bill would prohibit terminating employees to establish or fill customized sub-positions.
Commissioners of developmental disabilities and mental health
They would consult with the Civil Service Commission president on evaluating the program, with reports to the legislature addressing whether it should become permanent.
Headline styles
Create Jobs for Disabled People
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 111
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Print number 205a
- Amend and recommit to governmental employees
- Referred to governmental employees
- Referred to governmental employees
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Create Jobs for Disabled People
In Senate Committee · Civil Service And Pensions · Sponsor Catharine Young
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
205--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to establishing a customized employment demonstration program for persons with disabilities; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 55-b of the civil service law is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of subdivisions one and two of this section, the commission shall establish a customized employment demonstration program, of not more than fifteen positions, that subdivides traditional positions of employment into two or more sub-positions for the purpose of employing persons with developmental disabilities. Such persons appointed to fill sub-positions shall be limited to those individuals, who because of physical and/or mental disability, are unable to perform all the duties of the position, but are able to perform a portion of such duties, and who would otherwise not qualify, because of the severity of their disability, for a position designated pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
(b) Such persons, as determined by the president, shall be appointed as temporary employees to fill sub-positions. Sub-positions shall be customized to the strengths and interests of the job candidate and the identified needs of the employer, which may include the process of task reassignment, job carving and job sharing. No person holding a position pursuant to this chapter shall be terminated for the purposes of estab-
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lishing or filling a sub-position established pursuant to this subdivision. Sub-positions may be either part-time or full-time employment. Compensation for the sub-positions shall be set at the minimum wage, as established pursuant to section six hundred fifty-two of the labor law. Such compensation shall not include health benefits, pension benefits or any other additional benefits. All such sub-positions shall be classified in the non-competitive class.
(c) The program established pursuant to this subdivision shall commence on July first, two thousand nineteen. The president shall, in consultation with the commissioner of developmental disabilities and the commissioner of mental health, examine and evaluate the implementation and effects of this section, and shall issue to the legislature, an interim report, on or before July first, two thousand twenty, and a final report, on or before July first, two thousand twenty-one, of its findings, conclusions and recommendations, including whether the provisions of this subdivision should be continued on a permanent basis and, if so, recommendations for the implementation of a permanent customized employment program.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed repealed January 1, 2022.
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