(a) By the Implementation Date, OEWD shall develop and implement the portable PSL system.
(b) Planning phase.
(1) OEWD shall seek input and recommendations from Domestic Workers, Hiring Entities, other community partners, and City Departments on the PSL system, including platform for and features of the system and its operational requirements.
(2) Not later than six months after the effective date of this Article 12, OEWD shall submit to the Board of Supervisors a plan for developing and administering the PSL system, which shall address system development; organization and management, including whether OEWD intends to select a third-party PLS system administrator; and funding requirements, and which may include legislative recommendations. Subject to the budgetary and civil service provisions of the Charter, OEWD may delegate or assign functions of the development and implementation of the portable PSL system to a third-party administrator.
(3) During the remainder of the one-year planning phase, OEWD shall develop the PSL system, in conjunction with a third-party PSL system administrator if applicable.
(c) The portable PSL system shall perform the following functions:
(1) Tracking each Domestic Worker’s hours worked for a Hiring Entity and net pay rates, and calculating the accrued right to PSL funds from such information;
(2) When PSL funds are requested, coordinating the transfer of funds to a Domestic Worker who has accrued the right to PSL contributions from one or more Hiring Entities from which the right to PSL funds have accrued, in the order the right to PSL funds accrued.
(d) The portable PSL system shall be designed and administered to minimize administrative burdens for the Hiring Entity and Domestic Worker.
(e) The portable PSL system administrator may seek relevant background information from the Domestic Worker and the Hiring Entity for the purpose of coordinating the transfer of funds from a Hiring Entity to a Domestic Worker. All information provided to or retained in the portable PSL system shall be confidential to the extent permitted by law, provided however, that such information may be shared with 1) a financial institution facilitating payments by the PSL system to the extent legally required and 2) the Agency to the extent needed to implement, administer, and enforce this Article 12. Such financial institutions and the Agency shall maintain the confidentiality of such information to the extent permitted by law.