What's happening
This bill requires New York state agencies with high overtime rates to maintain prior year's staffing levels and report workforce data.
Why it matters
Aims to address chronic overtime by requiring agencies with high overtime rates (over 25% of workforce accruing overtime) to keep staffing levels at least equal to the previous year. this could lead to more stable work environments, less burnout for employees, and potentially better public services.
Mandates detailed annual workforce reporting. (including full-time, temporary, and per diem workers, plus overtime stats) to the Director of Budget, increasing transparency and enabling closer scrutiny of agency staffing practices.
Pushes agencies to actively reduce overtime reliance. by compelling them to document efforts to lower overtime usage below the set threshold, which could incentivize better hiring, scheduling, and resource allocation practices.
Includes exceptions for emergencies. (allowing temporary overtime increases when necessary), which balances the need for fiscal and staffing accountability with operational flexibility in times of crisis.
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Who cares
State agency leaders
Agencies with more than 25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime would have to maintain the previous year's full-time-equivalent positions, absent an emergency requiring a temporary overtime increase.
State agency employees
Workers at agencies exceeding the overtime threshold would be affected by staffing requirements and reporting on efforts to reduce overtime below that threshold.
Director of Budget
The director would receive annual agency workforce and overtime counts by January 15, along with additional staffing and overtime-reduction reports from agencies exceeding the threshold.
Temporary and per diem state agency workers
Agencies would have to report their numbers, hours worked and length of employment.
Headline styles
Keep State Agency Staff Levels
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Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to ways and means
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 7396a
- Amend (t) and recommit to labor
- Referred to labor
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Keep State Jobs Stable
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Robert Ortt
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7396--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 25, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to require state agencies with over twenty-five percent of their workforce accruing overtime to maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previous year
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any state agency with over 25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a calendar year basis and absent an emergency requiring a temporary increase in overtime hours, shall maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previous year. State agencies shall report the total number of agency workers and the total number of workers accruing overtime from the previous calendar year, to the Director of Budget by January 15 of each year. In addition, any agency exceeding the threshold as established herein shall report on the number of full time equivalent positions that have been filled in accordance with this section and all efforts made to reduce overtime to beneath the threshold stated herein. Each agency shall further report on the number of temporary workers and per diem workers in positions in said agency and the specific number of hours worked by temporary and per diem workers. Said report shall include the length of time said temporary workers or per diem workers have been employed in each agency.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11100-02-7
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