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NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance- TA and SNAP Employment Policy Manual

Section 385.9- Page 12 Rev. 4/2025 (a) if any other employee of the employer is available for reinstatement, recall or reemployment following a leave of absence, furlough, layoff or suspension from the same or any substantially equivalent job; or (b) when the employer has terminated the employment of any regular employee or otherwise reduced its work force with the intention of filling the vacancy or vacancies so created by hiring a participant whose wages are subsidized under this program; or (c) when the employee organization representing employees of the employer is engaged in a strike against the employer or such employees have been locked-out by the employer; or (d) when such hiring will result in the loss of a bargaining unit position as a result of assigned individuals performing, in part or in whole, the work normally performed by the employee in such position; v) no job is created that will infringe in any way upon the promotional opportunities of current employees or individuals currently engaged in an approved apprenticeship training program; vi) no participant shall remain in a job if another employee is eligible for promotion to that job. An employer shall, at least 10 days prior to filling a position with a participant, notify any employee organization that represents employees who are engaged in similar work or training in the same or substantially equivalent jobs as those on which the placement is to be made, that it intends to make a placement pursuant to the terms of this section. vii) where an employee organization represents employees of the employer who are engaged in similar work in the same or substantially equivalent jobs as those proposed to be funded under this program, an opportunity is provided for such organization to comment on the proposed placement of participants or the administration of the program and the social services official or his/her designee shall respond to such comments within 10 days of receipt of such comments; viii) employers are prohibited from using public assistance funds to encourage or discourage membership in, or participation in the activities of, any employee organization and each employer shall provide to the social services district assurances that no such funds will be used for such purposes. 5) The social services official shall require every private or not- for-profit employer that intends to hire one or more assigned individuals to certify to the social services district that such employer has not, in the past five years, been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor the underlying basis of which involved workplace safety and health or labor standards. Such employer shall also certify as to all violations issued by the State Department of Labor within the past five years. The social services official in the social services district in which the participant is placed shall determine whether there is a pattern of violations sufficient to render the potential employer ineligible. Employers who submit false information under this section shall be subject to criminal prosecution for filing a false instrument.