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This bill prevents public employers from being required to grant automatic pay or benefit increases after a union contract expires.
Why it matters
Limits automatic pay or benefit increases ("step" increases, longevity pay, additional vacation, etc.) for public employees whose contracts have expired. , meaning employees cannot receive these incremental raises just because time passes while a new contract is being negotiated.
Shifts bargaining leverage and financial predictability to public employers. by allowing them to freeze compensation at the levels set in the expired contract, potentially reducing pressure to settle quickly and helping municipalities control labor costs during prolonged negotiations.
May impact morale and retention for public sector workers. who have traditionally relied on step increases and similar benefits to offset cost-of-living changes or reward experience, potentially making public service less attractive if negotiations drag on.
Could result in longer or more contentious labor negotiations. , as unions may lose a key incentive to reach a quick agreement and may push back harder for retroactive pay or other concessions in future contracts.
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Freeze Raises After Contracts Expire
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5435
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the requirements of a public employer when a collective bargaining agreement has expired and a new agreement is not in place
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 209-a of the civil service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
(e) to refuse to continue all the terms of an expired agreement until a new agreement is negotiated, unless the employee organization which is a party to such agreement has, during such negotiations or prior to such resolution of such negotiations, engaged in conduct violative of subdivision one of section two hundred ten of this article, provided, however, that nothing herein or in any other provision of law shall require a public employer to pay higher wages or benefits to any employee based on longevity, length of service or passage of time after the expiration of such agreement and before a new agreement has been negotiated, including without limitation any step increases in wages based on existing wage scales, longevity payments, increased vacation or personal time, or other similar increases in wages or benefits;
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09286-01-9
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