What's happening
This bill allows certain public employees to use accrued sick, vacation, or compensation time for work-related injuries before workers' compensation coverage begins.
Why it matters
Provides financial stability for injured public employees. by allowing them to use their own accrued sick, vacation, or compensation time for work-related injuries before workers’ compensation benefits are available, helping them maintain income continuity during a vulnerable period.
Limits automatic application for unionized workers. by making the new rules inapplicable to employees currently covered by a collective bargaining agreement, unless their union specifically opts in, thereby respecting existing labor contracts and negotiations.
Protects and respects collective bargaining rights. by explicitly stating that nothing in the bill can reduce or interfere with benefits that employees or employers already have through union agreements, ensuring that negotiated benefits remain intact and that labor organizations retain the ability to negotiate for more or less generous provisions.
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Let Injured Workers Use Leave
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History
- Referred to governmental employees
- Referred to governmental employees
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Allow Injury Sick Time Use
In Senate Committee · Civil Service And Pensions · Sponsor Velmanette Montgomery
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1273
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, ORTIZ, RAIA, MOSLEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to use of accrued sick time, compensation time or vacation time
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 159-d to read as follows:
§ 159-d. Payment in lieu of workers' compensation payments. 1. Every public officer, employee of this state, county, community college, public authority, public benefit corporation, board of cooperative educational services (BOCES), vocational education and extension board, school district enumerated in section one of chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven, municipality, school district or participating employer in the New York state and local employees' retirement system or a participating employer in the New York state teachers' retirement system who has suffered a work related injury shall be entitled to use accrued sick time, compensation time or vacation time where any such employee is injured but has not yet become covered under the provisions of the workers' compensation law.
2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any employees subject to a collective bargaining agreement as of the effective date of this section. An employee organization may, pursuant to collective bargaining, opt in to the provisions of this section on behalf of those public employees it is either certified or recognized to represent, within the meaning of article fourteen of this chapter, or may alternatively bargain for benefits greater or less than those provided for by this section. An employee organization that has opted in to the provisions of this section may, pursuant to collective bargaining, opt
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out of it as is mutually agreed upon between the employee organization and any public employer.
3. Nothing set forth in this section shall be construed to impede, infringe or diminish the rights and benefits that accrue to employees and employers through collective bargaining agreements, or otherwise diminish the integrity of the collective bargaining relationship.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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