§ 12-09 Conduct of Solicitation Among City Employees.
RCNY § 12-09
(a)Contributions by employees to any charitable non-profit organization shall be purely voluntary.
(b)No form of pressure or coercion shall be used at any time by any employee or charitable non-profit organization to persuade employees to contribute to any charitable non-profit organization.
(c)An employee who wishes to make a charitable contribution through the Combined Municipal Campaign shall do so by completing and signing the form furnished by the Director. The employee shall indicate on the form whether the contribution is to be given to a particular organization participating in the Combined Municipal Campaign, or to the Combined Municipal Campaign itself for distribution to all participating organizations in the manner set forth in this section. Contributions may be made by submitting a single check made out to the order of the Combined Municipal Campaign, or by consenting to payroll deduction of a specified amount per pay period. If the employee chooses to contribute to the Combined Municipal Campaign through payroll deduction, the year of contribution shall be deemed to be the period between the time the consent to the deduction is given and the time such consent is withdrawn or the employee leaves his/her agency of employment, whichever shall occur first. The deduction shall continue until the employee either withdraws his/her consent to the payroll deduction or the employee leaves his/her agency of employment, whichever shall occur first.
(d)Employees shall be allowed to withdraw their consent to payroll deduction for contribution to charitable non-profit organizations at any time, upon written notice to the Commissioner.
(e)Contributions received by the Combined Municipal Campaign which are not designated for receipt by a particular participating organization shall be distributed among all participating organizations in the following manner: the total amount of such undesignated funds, less administrative expenses agreed upon as provided in 55 RCNY § 12-06, shall be divided by the total number of participating agencies, and an amount equal to the dividend shall be received by each agency. For the purposes of this calculation, each constituent member of a federation of charitable non-profit organizations shall be counted as a separate participating agency, but the federation to which such member belongs shall receive that member's share of the undesignated funds, to be distributed in accordance with the federation's agreement with its members.
(f)When an employee's paycheck is refunded by the employee's agency to the Department of Finance, any charitable contribution deducted for the period covered by such paycheck shall be returned to the City by the coordinating agency, or recovered by the City from the Combined Municipal Campaign by deduction from subsequent payments.
