What's happening
This bill requires New York state agencies with over 25% of their workforce accruing overtime to maintain prior year staffing levels and report related data.
Why it matters
Addresses chronic overtime by requiring agencies with high overtime rates to maintain prior year staffing levels, potentially reducing employee burnout and improving service quality.
Mandates detailed annual reporting on workforce composition, overtime accrual, and use of temporary or per diem workers, increasing transparency and accountability in agency staffing practices.
Pressures agencies to make tangible efforts to lower overtime below the 25% threshold, which could drive more sustainable hiring and workforce management strategies.
Provides the Director of Budget with comprehensive data on staffing and overtime, supporting better-informed decisions about agency funding and resource allocation.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3708
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
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.
LBD01462-01-9
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