Bill Text: NY A07396 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Requires state agencies 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, to maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previous year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A07396 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07396-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Requires state agencies 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, to maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previous year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A07396 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07396-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7396 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 25, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring state agencies to maintain all full time equivalent positions from a previous year if more than a certain percentage of their workforce accrued overtime in the previous calendar year 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 169-b to 2 read as follows: 3 § 169-b. Overtime for certain state employees. Notwithstanding any 4 other law to the contrary, any state agency with over twenty-five 5 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a calendar year basis 6 and absent an emergency requiring a temporary increase in overtime 7 hours, shall maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previ- 8 ous year. State agencies shall report the total number of agency work- 9 ers and the total number of workers accruing overtime from the previous 10 calendar year, to the director of the budget by January fifteenth of 11 each year. In addition, any agency exceeding the threshold as estab- 12 lished in this section shall report the number of full time equivalent 13 positions that have been filled in accordance with this section and all 14 efforts made to reduce overtime to beneath the threshold stated herein. 15 Each agency shall further report the number of temporary workers and per 16 diem workers in positions in such agency and the specific number of 17 hours worked by temporary and per diem workers. Such report shall 18 include the length of time the temporary workers or per diem workers 19 have been employed in each agency. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11100-01-7