What's happening
This bill requires a study and repayment to state employees who lost pay due to a bargaining unit change by decision C-6005.
Why it matters
Addresses financial fairness for affected employees. The bill seeks to ensure that state employees who lost pay due to a specific bargaining unit change (resulting from decision C-6005) are identified and compensated, correcting a potentially unfair outcome from a bureaucratic decision.
Mandates a formal review process. By requiring the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations, in consultation with relevant labor entities, to conduct a study, the bill injects transparency and accountability into how employee pay impacts are assessed following union or bargaining unit changes.
Establishes a defined timeline for action. The bill sets strict deadlines (120 days for the study, 30 days for notification, and 30 days for payments), which means affected employees could get relief relatively quickly, rather than waiting indefinitely for redress.
Potential precedent for future labor disputes. If enacted, this process could serve as a model for handling similar situations where state decisions inadvertently harm employees, potentially influencing labor policy and state-employee relations going forward.
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Restore Pay for State Employees
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Pay Back for Affected Workers
In Senate Committee · Civil Service And Pensions · Sponsor Fredrick J. Akshar II
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1077
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to provide financial equity to certain state employees who received a bargaining unit change
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the governor's office of employee relations, in consultation with the New York state public employment relations board and the professional, scientific and technical services unit shall conduct a study to determine if any state employee suffered a financial loss due to public employment relations board decision C-6005 to change bargaining units for certain employees. Such study shall be completed within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of this act.
If any employee is found to have experienced a reduction in pay due to such bargaining unit change, the governor's office of employee relations shall notify such affected employee and the office of the state comptroller in writing within thirty days of issuance of such study. The office of the state comptroller shall make a payment within thirty days of receiving such written notice to any employee the governor's office of employee relations determined suffered a reduction in pay equal to the amount of such reduction. Such payment shall be in any form currently allowed by law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03035-01-9
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