Bill Text: CA AB1983 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Excluded employees: shift seniority.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB1983 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1983-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1983	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lackey

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to add Section 3534.5 to the Government Code, relating to
public employees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1983, as introduced, Lackey. Excluded employees: shift
seniority.
   Existing law, the Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees,
prescribes various rights and terms and conditions of employment for
excluded employees, defined as certain supervisory, managerial, and
confidential state employees, among other specified employees.
   This bill would, with certain exceptions, require each state
entity that employs specified excluded supervisory employees to
develop, by January 1, 2018, policies that provide preference for
supervisors based upon classification seniority as it pertains to
shift assignments, vacations, and overtime.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 3534.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   3534.5.  (a) By January 1, 2018, each state entity that employs
excluded supervisory employees who are required to work shifts at a
workplace that operates with two or more shifts per day shall develop
policies that provide preference for supervisors based upon
classification seniority as it pertains to shift assignments,
vacations, and overtime. Management of the state entity shall develop
and maintain these policies by meeting with supervisory employee
organizations.
   (b) For purposes of this section, excluded supervisory employees
does not include peace officers employed by the Department of the
California Highway Patrol, the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, or the State Department of Developmental Services.