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This bill implements collective bargaining agreements for nonjudicial court employees, including annual uniform maintenance allowances and retroactive salary adjustments.
Why it matters
Recognizes and implements negotiated collective bargaining agreements. for nonjudicial court employees—meaning the law upholds these agreements as binding, ensuring employees receive agreed-upon benefits and protections.
Creates a new annual uniform maintenance allowance. for certain court employees required to wear blazers, with increasing payments over three years; this acknowledges both the cost and upkeep of uniforms as a job-related expense, and includes the allowance in retirement calculations, boosting long-term benefits.
Provides for retroactive salary adjustments. and ensures employees are compensated for past service at new, higher rates once funding is appropriated, which means affected employees could receive significant lump-sum payments to correct pay discrepancies.
Secures $28 million in state funding. specifically to cover the costs of these adjustments, signaling a commitment to fully fund labor agreements and avoid unfunded mandates that could strain the court system or delay employee compensation.
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Increase Court Employee Allowances
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Senator · Senate District 42
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History
- Signed chap.72
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.31
- Substituted for A9665
- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.803
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- Referred to finance
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Increase Court Worker Allowances
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Peter Abbate
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7715
IN SENATE
February 12, 2018
Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT in relation to terms and conditions of employment of certain nonjudicial officers and employees of the unified court system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that a collective bargaining agreement has been negotiated by the unified court system with an employee organization representing nonjudicial officers and employees in the New York City court clerks negotiating unit. The purpose of this act is to implement this agreement and any other collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the unified court system with an employee organization where, pursuant to section three of this act, the chief administrator of the courts has delivered a certificate to the comptroller that such collective bargaining agreement is in effect.
§ 2. Annual maintenance allowance. Each nonjudicial officer and employee of the unit who is required by the unified court system to wear an employer-approved blazer while performing the duties of his or her position shall be entitled to receive an annual maintenance allowance in an amount, as follows:
(a) for the fiscal year commencing April 1, 2018, $925;
(b) for the fiscal year commencing April 1, 2019, $1,000;
(c) for the fiscal year commencing April 1, 2020, $1,200.
Annual maintenance allowances as provided in this section shall be in addition to and shall not be a part of an employee's basic annual salary; provided, however, they shall be included as compensation for retirement purposes.
§ 3. Application of this act to nonjudicial officers and employees of the unified court system in other negotiating units. In the event that a collective bargaining agreement is negotiated by the unified court system pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law with an employee organization representing nonjudicial officers and employees of the unified court system in a negotiating unit other than the New York
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City court clerks negotiating unit, the chief administrator of the courts, with the agreement of such employee organization, shall deliver to the comptroller a certificate that such collective bargaining agreement is in effect where the provisions of section two of this act are provided for therein.
§ 4. Collective bargaining agreement required. The provisions of section two of this act shall not be implemented for nonjudicial officers and employees in a collective negotiating unit established pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law until the chief administrator of the courts shall deliver to the comptroller a certificate that there is in effect with respect to such negotiating unit a written collective bargaining agreement with the state pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law which provides therefor; and any increase in compensation provided by section two of this act or otherwise authorized by law, shall not preclude any other increases in compensation for such a nonjudicial officer or employee as may be authorized by law.
§ 5. Deferred payment of salary increase. Notwithstanding the provisions of this act or any other law, commencing April 1, 2017, and pending payment pursuant to law of the basic annual salaries of incumbents of positions subject to this act commencing April 1, 2017, such incumbents shall receive, as partial compensation for services rendered, the rate of compensation otherwise payable in their respective positions pursuant to law then in effect. An incumbent holding a position subject to this act at any time during the period from April 1, 2017 until the time when basic annual salaries are first paid pursuant to this act for such service in excess of the compensation actually received therefor shall be entitled to a lump sum payment for the difference between the salary to which such incumbent is entitled for such service and the compensation actually received therefor. Such lump sum payment shall be made as soon as practicable, except that such lump sum payment shall not be made, nor shall any lump sum payment pursuant to any other provision of law be made to any employee or former employee serving in a position in the New York City court clerks negotiating unit between April 1, 2014 and April 1, 2017 on account of service in such position, unless the legislature has appropriated twenty-eight million dollars to the administrative office of the courts for the express purpose of funding such lump sum payments, as provided in section six of this act or some other provision of law.
§ 6. The sum of twenty-eight million dollars ($28,000,000) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes account, not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available to the administrative office of the courts for payment pursuant to this act of the costs and expenses thereunder necessary during the 2017-18 state fiscal year, including lump sum payments due employees pursuant to section five of this act on account of service during a state fiscal year prior to the 2017-18 fiscal year; provided, however, where provisions of law require expenditures that must be paid from appropriations from funds of the state other than the general fund or that, by established administrative practice, are paid from such funds, the chief administrator of the courts shall so certify to the comptroller, and thereupon the appropriation provided in this section shall be available for such expenditures.
§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2017.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act in relation to terms and conditions of employ- ment of certain nonjudicial officers and employees of the unified court system
This measure is being introduced at the request of the Judiciary. It implements a collective bargaining agreement between the State and a public employee union negotiating on behalf of court employees in the New York City court clerks negotiating unit. This collective bargaining agreement provides salary increases and other benefits for the period from April 1, 2011 through April 1, 2020.
This measure authorizes the payment of a pensionable annual maintenance allowance for each employee in the unit required by the employer to wear an employer-approved blazer while in the performance of his or her duties. This allowance shall equal $925 during the 2018-19 State Fiscal Year; $1,000 during the 2019-20 Fiscal Year; and $1,200 during the 2020-21 Fiscal Year.
Payment of this allowance shall not be implemented until the Chief Administrator of the Courts delivers to the Comptroller a certificate that there is a written collective bargaining agreement with the State providing therefor.
This measure, which would take effect retroactively as of April 1, 2017, carries an appropriation of $28 million*. This appropriation will fund the cost of retroactive application.
Legislative history
None. New proposal.
*Note that the collective bargaining agreement also provides for pay increases, increments, longevity bonuses and location pay dating back to April I, 2011. While this legislation does not expressly call for payment of such benefits, statutory authority for that payment is found elsewhere. See L. 2014, c. 400, L. 2017, c. 98, Senate 7440-A/Assembly 8948-A.
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