2006 New York Code - Employee assistance programs

 
  § 41.54 Employee assistance programs.
    (a)  The director of the division of alcoholism and alcohol abuse may,
  within appropriations made therefor, provide assistance in  establishing
  and maintaining employee assistance programs.
    (b)  Such assistance may be provided to a consortium, a not-for-profit
  corporation that provides employee assistance program services to two or
  more of the following:
    (1) an employer of less than seven hundred fifty employees;
    (2) a labor organization;
    (3) a professional organization;
    (4) a community organization; or
    (5) an employer of an economically distressed industry or  located  in
  an economically distressed region, or a business owned by or employing a
  high proportion of women or minorities.
    (c) The division of alcoholism and alcohol abuse shall adopt rules and
  regulations   to   effectuate   the   provisions  of  this  section,  in
  consultation with other  appropriate  state  agencies.  Such  rules  and
  regulations  shall  include,  but not be limited to, provisions relating
  to:
    (1) the establishment of  an  advisory  board,  which  shall  work  in
  consultation with the advisory council on alcoholism and substance abuse
  services,  and  whose  membership  shall include, but not be limited to,
  individuals   from   the   occupational   programs,   professions    and
  representatives  of  small businesses and labor organizations, and whose
  duties shall include, but not be limited to, recommendation of  criteria
  for funding, and methods of determining program accountability;
    (2)  procedures  for approval of funding for a program, including, but
  not  limited  to,   elements   necessary   for   the   development   and
  implementation  of,  and  qualifications  necessary for the staffing of,
  employee assistance program services;
    (3) criteria for the confidentiality and maintenance of records; and
    (4) minimum program standards  for  the  operation  of  effective  and
  appropriate employee assistance programs.
    (d)  Within  amounts  available  therefor  and  subject to regulations
  established by the commissioner and notwithstanding any other provisions
  of this article, financial assistance to an employee assistance  program
  shall  not exceed eighty-five percent of the non-capital expenditures of
  the program's first year of operation for such year, seventy percent  of
  such  expenditures  for  the  program's  second year of operation, fifty
  percent for the program's third year of operation, and thirty percent of
  such expenditures for the fourth year of  operation.  No  program  shall
  receive  financial aid under this section after completion of the fourth
  year.
    (e) Applications for assistance shall be made in the manner prescribed
  by the director.