Section 534-P - Implementation of telecommunications hiring system for longshore workers and checkers; registration of telecommunications system controller1. The commission may designate one of the employment information centers it is authorized to establish and maintain under section five hundred thirty-four-o of this article for the implementation of a telecommunications hiring system through which longshore workers and checkers may be hired and accept employment without any personal appearance at said center. Any such telecommunications hiring system shall incorporate hiring and seniority agreements between the employers of longshore workers and checkers and the labor organization representing longshore workers and checkers in the port of New York district in this state, provided said agreements are not in conflict with the provisions of the article.2. The commission shall permit employees of the association representing employers of longshore workers and checkers and of the labor organization representing longshore workers and checkers in the port of New York district in this state, or of a joint board of such association and labor organization, to participate in the operation of said telecommunications hiring system, provided that any such employee is registered by the commission as a "telecommunications system controller" in accordance with the provisions, standards and grounds set forth in the act with respect to the registration of checkers. No person shall act as a "telecommunications system controller" unless that person is so registered. Any application for such registration and any registration made or issued may be denied, revoked, or suspended, as the case may be, only in the manner prescribed in section five hundred thirty-four-n of this article. Any and all such participation in the operation of said telecommunications hiring system shall be monitored by the commission.3. Any and all records, documents, tapes, discs and other data compiled, collected or maintained by said association of employers, labor organization and joint board of such association and labor organization pertaining to the telecommunications hiring system shall be available for inspection, investigation and duplication by the commission.Added by New York Laws 2024, ch. 58,Sec. L-2, eff. 6/30/2024.