New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 6 - Executive Orders (Eliot Spitzer) › Section 6.19 - Executive order no. 19: requiring the adoption of domestic violence and the workplace policies

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
WHEREAS, domestic violence is a serious public policy
					 concern for the State of New York, requiring the State's participation in the
					 coordinated community response to support victims and hold abusers accountable;
					 and
WHEREAS, domestic violence permeates the lives and
					 compromises the safety of thousands of New Yorkers each day, with tragic,
					 destructive, and sometime fatal results; and
WHEREAS, domestic violence occurs within a wide spectrum of
					 intimate relationships, including married and formerly married couples, couples
					 with children in common, couples who live together or have lived together, and
					 couples who are or have been in a dating or sexual relationship, including same
					 gender couples; and
WHEREAS, domestic violence is a widespread community
					 problem that affects thousands of New York families, and that extends beyond
					 the family into all areas of society, including the workplace; and
WHEREAS, the State of New York, as an employer, is
					 additionally affected by domestic violence, which compromises the safety of
					 both victims and co-workers, and results in lost productivity, increased health
					 care costs, increased absenteeism and increased employee turnover; and
WHEREAS, a proactive response to domestic violence by the
					 State of New York can also serve as a model for other employers in the state;
					 and
WHEREAS, the Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
					 (OPDV) formulated a model workplace policy for state agencies to address
					 domestic violence (the "Model Domestic Violence and the Workplace Policy"), and
					 released that policy in July 2000, but many state agencies have not yet adopted
					 such a policy;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Eliot Spitzer, Governor of the State of
					 New York, by virtue of the authority invested in me by the Constitution and the
					 laws of the State of New York, do hereby order as follows:
1. OPDV shall review the Model Domestic
				  Violence and the Workplace Policy released in July 2000 and formulate any
				  appropriate revisions to that policy. OPDV shall also formulate sample written
				  procedures for the implementation of the revised Model Domestic Violence and
				  the Workplace Policy.
2. OPDV shall
				  distribute the revised Model Domestic Violence and the Workplace Policy, along
				  with the sample implementation procedures, to each state agency no later than
				  February 1, 2008. For the purposes of this order, "state agency" shall mean:
(1) any state agency, department, office,
				  board, commission or other instrumentality of the state; and
(2) any public authority or public benefit
				  corporation created by or existing under any State law, at least one of whose
				  members is appointed by the Governor (including any subsidiaries of such public
				  authority or public benefit corporation), other than an interstate or
				  international authority or public benefit corporation.