2013 New York Consolidated Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 24 - (835 - 849) WORKER ADJUSTMENT ACT
840 - State level activities, rapid response.

 
    §  840.  State level activities, rapid response. 1. The state shall be
  responsible for rapid response activities pursuant to section  312.1  of
  the  federal Job Training Partnership Act (P.L. 97-300), coordination of
  title III activity and the state unemployment insurance  program,  state
  and   regional   projects  and  demonstrations,  and  the  discretionary
  allocation of additional funds to substate areas based on  determination
  of need.
    2.  The  state's  designated  dislocated  worker  unit  shall have the
  capability to provide rapid  response  services  to  dislocated  workers
  affected by a substantial layoff or a plant closing. Such services shall
  include:
    (a)  on  site intervention within forty-eight hours of notification of
  either a plant closing or a substantial layoff;
    (b) provision of emergency basic readjustment services as needed;
    (c) promotion of labor-management cooperation through the  initiation,
  with  the  department  of  economic  development,  where appropriate, of
  labor-management committees;
    (d) development, with the department of economic  development,  of  an
  early warning system;
    (e)   dissemination  of  information  on  dislocated  worker  services
  available under title III of the federal Job  Training  Partnership  Act
  (P.L.  97-300)  and  other  appropriate  services funded by the federal,
  state, and local governments;
    (f) provision of technical assistance to substate grantees;
    (g) receipt of notifications of layoffs and closings and provision  to
  substate  grantees of such information as soon as possible to assure the
  maximum local response;
    (h)  coordination  between   rapid   response   activities   and   the
  unemployment  insurance  system and the job training partnership system,
  state  and  local  economic  development  activities  and  the  regional
  education centers of the state education department; and
    (i)  notification  of  appropriate state agency staff and coordination
  with  the  activities  of  central,  local  or  regional  staff  of  the
  departments  of  labor, economic development and education to facilitate
  additional on-site contact with employer  and  employee  representatives
  within  a  short  period  of  time,  preferably forty-eight hours, after
  becoming  aware  of  a  current  or  projected  permanent   closure   or
  substantial  layoff  in  order  to provide information on and facilitate
  access to available public programs and services.
    3. The commissioner may, under  exceptional  circumstances,  authorize
  the designated dislocated worker unit to provide rapid response services
  when  the employment loss is for less than twenty-five employees, is not
  at a single site of employment or does not take place  during  a  single
  thirty  day  period.  For  purposes  of  this  subdivision,  exceptional
  circumstances include those situations which would have a  major  impact
  on the community or communities in which they occur.