Relates to collective bargaining processes for peace officers and special officers for the city of New York

4 Co-sponsors

• Shirley L. Huntley
• George Onorato
• Toby Ann Stavisky
• Antoine M. Thompson

BILL NUMBER:S3538B

Title of bill

An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to the collective bargaining process for certain peace officers and special officers

Purpose

(1). This bill would amend section 212 of the Civil Service law to provide that for all collective negotiations to which the City of New York is a participant with the Department of Education of the City of New York, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, the NYC Housing Authority, or the city University of New York, the negotiations shall be conducted with the employee organization certified to represent the peace officers and special officers employed by the foregoing entities. (2). The bill provides that pursuant to NYC Administrative Code Section 12-307 (4) (i) negotiations for employees of the Fire Department of the city of, New York in the job title, supervisors of Blasting, shall be conducted in the manner described above.

Justification

Section 12-307 (4) (i) of the New York City Administrative Code was recently amended to provide that peace officers and special officers employed by New York city agencies represented by an employee organization in collective bargaining shall have the same right as police, firefighters, other Fire Department employees, and NYC correction officers to bargain directly with the City of New York over all matters, including but not limited to, overtime and time and leave matters. The agencies covered by this bill that would be afforded similar treatment with respect to collective bargaining process are not City agencies, but rather are state created entities, not subject to such provision of the Administrative Code. To maintain consistent collective bargaining process treatment of all peace officers and special officers involved in bargaining where the city of New York is a participant, this amendment to the Civil Service Law is necessary. The Administrative Code amendment corrects an inadvertent omission of a job title in the recent amendment to the Code previously described.

Legislative history

Passed Senate 05/05/10 as an 'A' print.

Fiscal implications

None. This bill confers no wage or benefit increases. It merely standardizes collective bargaining procedures for all peace officer and special officer employee organizations engaged in bargaining where the City of New York is a participant.

Effective date

This act shall take effect immediately.