Bill Text: NY A04119 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4119 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that an employee whose position is eliminated for certain reasons and who is subsequently transferred to a different agency be entitled to the same hourly salary; retain all accrued sick leave; retain, cash out or use all accrued vacation time; and be paid relocation expenses.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to labor [A04119 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04119-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4119

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. COLTON, COOK, FALL, J. RIVERA, McDONOUGH, HYND-
          MAN, STECK, CRUZ, FERNANDEZ, DeSTEFANO, EPSTEIN, RICHARDSON --  Multi-
          Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. PERRY, WALKER -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring that state agen-
          cies must protect salary and benefits of employees whose positions are
          eliminated as a result of privatization, reorganization, closure or  a
          reduction in work force

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  202-n  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  202-n.  Salary  and  benefits  protection  -  employee transfer. An
     4  employee whose position is eliminated  as  a  result  of  privatization,
     5  reorganization  of  an  agency, closure of or a reduction in force at an
     6  agency, or other actions by the  legislature  and  who  is  subsequently
     7  transferred to a different position in a state agency is entitled to:
     8    1.  the  same hourly salary as previously received if the new position
     9  is at the same grade level or higher as the one previously held;
    10    2. retain all accrued sick leave credits;
    11    3. retain, cash out, or use accrued vacation leave credits  to  extend
    12  the employee's effective layoff date; and
    13    4. relocation expenses which must be paid by the hiring agency.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03247-01-1