What's happening
This bill requires interviews of Port Authority employees to comply with collective bargaining agreements rather than current contractual obligations.
Why it matters
Shifts the standard for employee interviews from general contractual obligations to the specific terms of collective bargaining agreements. this change could give unions greater influence over how interviews are conducted, especially in disciplinary or investigatory contexts.
Strengthens worker protections by ensuring that interview procedures must align with negotiated union agreements. , potentially giving employees clearer rights (such as representation or notice) during interviews that could affect their employment.
Limits the Port Authority’s flexibility to unilaterally set interview procedures. for unionized employees, ensuring that any changes or requirements must be negotiated through collective bargaining rather than imposed by management or pre-existing contracts.
Creates a more uniform and transparent process for employee interviews across the Port Authority and its subsidiaries. , reducing ambiguity about which rules apply and making it easier for employees to understand and assert their rights.
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Protect Port Authority Interviews
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History
- Substituted by S5451
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.394
- Rules report cal.394
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Referred to governmental employees
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Protect Port Authority Interviews
Vetoed · Sponsor Andrew J. Lanza
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6987
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 28, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend chapter 154 of the laws of 1921 relating to the port authority of New York and New Jersey, in relation to interviews of any officer or employee of the port authority or its subsidiaries
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph e of subdivision 6 of article IV of section 1 of chapter 154 of the laws of 1921 relating to the port authority of New York and New Jersey, as added by chapter 559 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
(4) interview any officer or employee of the port authority or its subsidiaries on any matter related to the performance of such officer or employee's official duties. [To the extent that any portion of this paragraph is inconsistent with any current contractual obligations of the port authority, this paragraph shall not be applicable to those obligations until the earliest expiration of those terms under the contract] To the extent that the terms and conditions of employment of any employee are established by collective negotiations, any interview conducted pursuant to this paragraph must be in accordance with any applicable provisions of the current, or most recent, if expired, collective negotiations agreement covering the terms and conditions of employment of the employee;
§ 2. This act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with this act, and upon the enactment into law by the state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with chapter 559 of the laws of 2015 pursuant to section 6 of such chapter, but if the state of New Jersey shall have already enacted such legislation, then this act shall take effect immediately. The chairperson of the port authority shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the enactment into
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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law of such legislation by both such states in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
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