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

Appendix A- Page 3 Rev. 3/2022 1) The social services district shall assign to the sponsor recipients of TANF, Safety Net Assistance, and/or SNAP benefits (hereinafter called "participants") to whom the sponsor shall assign work experience activities in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and applicable law and regulations. 2) Work experience activities shall be performed at the sponsor's office or at such other worksite locations as shall be mutually agreed upon between the social services district and the sponsor. The work experience assignment, however, must serve a useful public purpose in fields such as health, social services, environmental protection, education, urban and rural development and re-development, welfare, recreation, operation of public facilities, public safety, or child day care. 3) The assignment of a participant to a work experience activity must not result in: a) the displacement of any currently employed employee or loss of job or position, including partial displacement such as a reduction in the hours of non-overtime work, wages or employment benefits, or result in the impairment of existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements; b) the assignment of a participant to a work experience activity when an employee is on layoff from the same or any equivalent position, or the employer has terminated the employment of any regular employee or otherwise has reduced its workforce with the effect of filling the resultant functional vacancy with such participant; c) any infringement of the promotional opportunities of the sponsor's employees; d) the performance, by such participant, of a substantial portion of the work ordinarily and actually performed by regular employees; or e) the loss of a bargaining unit position as a result of the work experience participant performing, in part or in whole, the work normally performed by the employee in such position. 4) Work experience assignments shall not be made at any worksite at which the regular employees are on a legal strike against the employer or are being subjected to a lock out by the employer. 5) No participant shall be assigned to a work experience activity that conflicts with their bona fide religious beliefs. 6) The social services district will advise the sponsor as to the number of mandatory hours for which each participant must participate in work experience activities each month. A participant may be assigned to work experience activities for a maximum number of hours calculated by dividing their public assistance grant and allotment of SNAP benefits, if applicable, by the state or federal minimum wage, whichever is higher. The limitation of the number of hours of work experience activities to which a participant may be assigned is only a calculation of allowable hours in work experience activity. In no event may a participant be required to work more than forty hours in any week. 7) The social services district will advise the sponsor as to any limitations a participant may have with regards to the nature of work experience activities in which they may participate; participants will be required to perform only those activities that are within their capabilities. 8) The sponsor will maintain and provide to the social services district time records with respect to each participant, and shall ensure that such time records are adequate to meet the needs of the social services district. Such time records will include the sponsor's name and address, the participant's name, the hours during which the participant participated in