Bill Text: NY A08291 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to suspension or demotion upon the abolition or reduction of positions for labor class and noncompetitive titles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2012-08-17 - tabled [A08291 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8291
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 10, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Employees
       AN ACT to amend the civil service law and the public authorities law, in
         relation  to suspension or demotion upon the abolition or reduction of
         positions for labor class and noncompetitive  titles;  and  to  repeal
         section 80-a of the civil service law relating thereto
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 1-a, 1-b, 1-c, 2, 6, 7 and 9 of section  80
    2  of  the  civil  service law, subdivision 1 as amended and subdivisions 6
    3  and 7 as added by chapter 283 of the laws of 1972,  subdivision  1-a  as
    4  added  by  chapter  312 of the laws of 1976, subdivision 1-b as added by
    5  chapter 653 of the laws of 1978, subdivision 1-c as added by chapter 334
    6  of the laws of 1994, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 376 of the laws
    7  of 1977, subdivisions 6 and 7 as renumbered by chapter 360 of  the  laws
    8  of  1985, and subdivision 9 as added by chapter 470 of the laws of 1988,
    9  are amended to read as follows:
   10    1. Suspension or demotion. Where, because of economy, consolidation or
   11  abolition of functions, curtailment of activities  or  otherwise,  posi-
   12  tions  in  the competitive, NONCOMPETITIVE, OR LABOR class are abolished
   13  or reduced in rank or salary grade, suspension or demotion, as the  case
   14  may  be, among incumbents holding the same or similar positions shall be
   15  made in the inverse order of original appointment on a  permanent  basis
   16  in  the  classified service in the service of the governmental jurisdic-
   17  tion in which such abolition or reduction of positions  occurs,  subject
   18  to  the  provisions  of subdivision seven of section eighty-five of this
   19  chapter; provided, however, that the date of original appointment of any
   20  such incumbent who was transferred  to  such  governmental  jurisdiction
   21  from  another  governmental  jurisdiction upon the transfer of functions
   22  shall be the date of original appointment on a permanent  basis  in  the
   23  classified  service in the service of the governmental jurisdiction from
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  which such transfer was made. Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  this
    2  subdivision,  however,  upon  the abolition or reduction of positions in
    3  the competitive, NONCOMPETITIVE OR LABOR class, incumbents  holding  the
    4  same  or  similar  positions  who  have not completed their probationary
    5  service shall be suspended or demoted, as the case may  be,  before  any
    6  permanent incumbents, and among such probationary employees the order of
    7  suspension  or  demotion  shall  be determined as if such employees were
    8  permanent incumbents.
    9    1-a.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  this
   10  section,  the members of a police or paid fire department in the city of
   11  Buffalo shall be subject to the following procedure. Where,  because  of
   12  economy,  consolidation or abolition of functions, curtailment of activ-
   13  ities or otherwise, positions  in  the  competitive,  NONCOMPETITIVE  OR
   14  LABOR class are abolished or reduced in rank or salary grade, suspension
   15  or  demotion,  as  the case may be, among incumbents holding the same or
   16  similar positions shall  be  made  in  the  inverse  order  of  original
   17  appointment on a permanent basis in the grade or title in the service of
   18  the  governmental  jurisdiction  in which such abolition or reduction of
   19  positions occurs, subject to the  provisions  of  subdivision  seven  of
   20  section  eighty-five of this chapter.  Notwithstanding the provisions of
   21  this subdivision, however, upon the abolition or reduction of  positions
   22  in  the  competitive class, incumbents holding the same or similar posi-
   23  tions who  have  not  completed  their  probationary  service  shall  be
   24  suspended  or  demoted,  as the case may be, before any permanent incum-
   25  bents, and among such probationary employees the order of suspension  or
   26  demotion  shall be determined as if such employees were permanent incum-
   27  bents.
   28    1-b.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  this
   29  section,  employees  of  secure  detention facilities in the city of New
   30  York and of the alternatives to secure detention facilities  program  in
   31  such city who are performing functions which were assumed by the depart-
   32  ment  of  social  services  of  the city of New York on the tenth day of
   33  November, nineteen hundred seventy-one and  who,  upon  such  assumption
   34  were  transferred  to said department, shall be subject to the following
   35  procedure. Where, because of  economy,  consolidation  or  abolition  of
   36  function,  curtailment  of  activities  or  otherwise,  positions in the
   37  competitive, NONCOMPETITIVE OR LABOR class are abolished, or reduced  in
   38  rank  or salary grade, suspension or demotion, as the case may be, among
   39  incumbents holding the same or similar positions shall be  made  in  the
   40  inverse  order of original appointment on a permanent basis in the clas-
   41  sified service in the service of the governmental jurisdiction in  which
   42  such  abolition  or  reduction  of  positions  occurs,  subject  to  the
   43  provisions of subdivision seven of section eighty-five of this  chapter;
   44  provided, however, that if any person so employed and so transferred was
   45  employed  on  a permanent basis in such a facility or such program prior
   46  to the thirtieth day of  December,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  for
   47  purposes  of this subdivision regarding priority of retention and for no
   48  other purpose, the date of original appointment of any such person shall
   49  be deemed to be the date such permanent employment  commenced  prior  to
   50  the said thirtieth day of December, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.
   51    1-c.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  this
   52  section, sworn employees of the Monroe county sheriff's department shall
   53  be subject to  the  following  procedure.  Where,  because  of  economy,
   54  consolidation  or  abolition  of  function, curtailment of activities or
   55  otherwise, positions in the competitive, NONCOMPETITIVE OR  LABOR  class
   56  are  abolished,  or  reduced  in  rank  or  salary  grade, suspension or
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    1  demotion, as the case may be, among incumbents holding the same or simi-
    2  lar positions shall be made in the inverse order of original appointment
    3  on a permanent basis in the grade or title in the service of the govern-
    4  mental  jurisdiction  in  which such abolition or reduction of positions
    5  occurs, subject to the provisions of subdivision seven of section eight-
    6  y-five of this  chapter;  provided,  however,  that  if  any  person  so
    7  employed  was employed in such person's current title prior to the first
    8  day of April, nineteen hundred ninety-three, for purposes of this subdi-
    9  vision regarding priority of retention and for  no  other  purpose,  the
   10  date  of  original  appointment of any such person shall be deemed to be
   11  the date such employment commenced prior to the said first day of April,
   12  nineteen hundred ninety-three.
   13    2. Continuous service. Except as otherwise provided  herein,  for  the
   14  purposes  of this section the original appointment of an incumbent shall
   15  mean the date of his first appointment on a permanent basis in the clas-
   16  sified service followed by continuous service in the classified  service
   17  on a permanent basis up to the time of the abolition or reduction of the
   18  competitive,  NONCOMPETITIVE  OR  LABOR class positions. An employee who
   19  has resigned and who has been reinstated or reappointed in  the  service
   20  within  one  year thereafter shall, for the purposes of this section, be
   21  deemed to have continuous service. An employee who has  been  terminated
   22  because of a disability resulting from occupational injury or disease as
   23  defined in the workmen's compensation law and who has been reinstated or
   24  reappointed in the service thereafter shall be deemed to have continuous
   25  service.  A period of employment on a temporary or provisional basis, or
   26  in the unclassified service, immediately preceded and followed by perma-
   27  nent service in the classified service, shall not constitute  an  inter-
   28  ruption  of  continuous  service  for  the purposes of this section; nor
   29  shall a period of leave of absence without pay pursuant to  law  or  the
   30  rules of the civil service commission having jurisdiction, or any period
   31  during which an employee is suspended from his position pursuant to this
   32  section,  constitute  an  interruption  of  continuous  service  for the
   33  purposes of this section.
   34    6. Displacement in civil divisions. A permanent incumbent of  a  posi-
   35  tion  in a civil division in a specific title to which there is a direct
   36  line of promotion  who  is  suspended  or  displaced  pursuant  to  this
   37  section,  together with all other such incumbents suspended or displaced
   38  at the same time, shall displace, in the inverse order of the  order  of
   39  suspension  or  demotion  prescribed in subdivisions one and two of this
   40  section, incumbents serving in positions in the same lay-off unit in the
   41  next lower occupied title in direct  line  of  promotion  who  shall  be
   42  displaced  in the order of suspension or demotion prescribed in subdivi-
   43  sions one and two of this section; provided, however, that no  incumbent
   44  shall displace any other incumbent having greater retention standing. If
   45  a  permanent incumbent of a position in a civil division is suspended or
   46  displaced from a position in a title for which there are no lower  level
   47  occupied  positions  in  direct line of promotion, he shall displace the
   48  incumbent with the least retention right pursuant  to  subdivisions  one
   49  and  two  of  this  section who is serving in a position in the title in
   50  which the displacing incumbent last served on a permanent basis prior to
   51  service in one or more positions in the title from which he is suspended
   52  or displaced, if: (1) the service of the displacing incumbent  while  in
   53  such  former  title  was satisfactory and (2) the position of the junior
   54  incumbent is in (a) the competitive, NONCOMPETITIVE OR LABOR class,  (b)
   55  the  layoff  unit  from  which the displacing incumbent was suspended or
   56  displaced, and (c) a lower salary grade than the position from which the
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    1  displacing incumbent is suspended or displaced; provided, however,  that
    2  no incumbent shall displace any other incumbent having greater retention
    3  standing. Refusal of appointment to a position afforded by this subdivi-
    4  sion constitutes waiver of rights under this subdivision with respect to
    5  the  suspension or displacement on account of which the refused appoint-
    6  ment is afforded. The municipal civil service commission  shall  promul-
    7  gate  rules  to  implement  this  subdivision  including rules which may
    8  provide adjunctive opportunities for displacement either to positions in
    9  direct line of promotion or to formerly held positions; provided, howev-
   10  er, that no such rule shall permit an incumbent to  displace  any  other
   11  incumbent  having greater retention standing. For the purpose of acquir-
   12  ing preferred list rights, displacement pursuant to this subdivision  is
   13  the  equivalent of suspension or demotion pursuant to subdivision one of
   14  this section.
   15    7. Displacement in the state service. A permanent incumbent of a posi-
   16  tion in the state service in a specific title to which there is a direct
   17  line of promotion  who  is  suspended  or  displaced  pursuant  to  this
   18  section,  together with all other such incumbents suspended or displaced
   19  at the same time, shall displace, in the inverse order of the  order  of
   20  suspension  or  demotion  prescribed in subdivisions one and two of this
   21  section, incumbents serving in positions in the same layoff unit in  the
   22  next  lower  occupied  title  in  direct  line of promotion who shall be
   23  displaced in the order of suspension or demotion prescribed in  subdivi-
   24  sions  one and two of this section; provided, however, that no incumbent
   25  shall displace any other incumbent having greater retention standing. If
   26  a permanent incumbent of a position in the state service is suspended or
   27  displaced from a position in a title for which there are no lower  level
   28  occupied  positions  in  direct line of promotion, he shall displace the
   29  incumbent with the least retention right pursuant  to  subdivisions  one
   30  and  two  of  this  section who is serving in a position in the title in
   31  which the displacing incumbent last served on a permanent basis prior to
   32  service in one or more positions in the title from which he is suspended
   33  or displaced, if: (1) the service of the displacing incumbent  while  in
   34  such  former  title  was satisfactory and (2) the position of the junior
   35  incumbent is in (a) the competitive, NONCOMPETITIVE OR LABOR class,  (b)
   36  the  layoff  unit  from  which the displacing incumbent was suspended or
   37  displaced, and (c) a lower salary grade than the position from which the
   38  displacing incumbent is suspended or displaced; provided, however,  that
   39  no incumbent shall displace any other incumbent having greater retention
   40  standing. Refusal of appointment to a position afforded by this subdivi-
   41  sion constitutes waiver of rights under this subdivision with respect to
   42  the  suspension or displacement on account of which the refused appoint-
   43  ment is afforded. The state civil service  commission  shall  promulgate
   44  rules  to  implement  this subdivision including rules which may provide
   45  adjunctive opportunities for displacement either to positions in  direct
   46  line of promotion or to formerly held positions; provided, however, that
   47  no  such  rule shall permit an incumbent to displace any other incumbent
   48  having  greater  retention  standing.  For  the  purpose  of   acquiring
   49  preferred  list rights, displacement pursuant to this subdivision is the
   50  equivalent of suspension or demotion pursuant to subdivision one of this
   51  section.
   52    9. Certain suspensions or demotions in  the  city  of  Niagara  Falls.
   53  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of subdivision one of this section, the
   54  members of a paid fire department in the city of Niagara Falls shall  be
   55  subject  to  the following procedure. Where, because of economy, consol-
   56  idation or abolition of functions, curtailment of activities  or  other-
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    1  wise,  positions  in  the  competitive class are abolished or reduced in
    2  rank or salary grade, suspension or demotion, as the case may be,  among
    3  incumbents  holding  the  same or similar positions shall be made in the
    4  inverse  order of original appointment on a permanent basis in the grade
    5  or title in the service of the governmental jurisdiction in  which  such
    6  abolition or reduction of positions occurs, subject to the provisions of
    7  subdivision seven of section eighty-five of this chapter.  Notwithstand-
    8  ing  the  provisions of this subdivision, however, upon the abolition or
    9  reduction of positions  in  the  competitive,  NONCOMPETITIVE  OR  LABOR
   10  class,  incumbents  holding  the  same or similar positions who have not
   11  completed their probationary service shall be suspended or  demoted,  as
   12  the  case may be, before any permanent incumbents, and among such proba-
   13  tionary employees the order of suspension or demotion  shall  be  deter-
   14  mined as if such employees were permanent incumbents.
   15    S 2. Section 80-a of the civil service law is REPEALED.
   16    S  3.  Subdivisions 2 and 4 of section 78 of the civil service law, as
   17  added by chapter 29 of the laws of 1996, are amended to read as follows:
   18    2. Order of certification of names from transfer list. a. The names of
   19  persons on a transfer list established to fill  vacancies  in  the  same
   20  position  or  a  position in a lower grade in line of promotion shall be
   21  certified therefrom in the order  of  their  original  appointments,  in
   22  accordance  with the provisions of subdivision three of section eighty[,
   23  subdivision three of section eighty-a] and subdivision seven of  section
   24  eighty-five of this chapter.
   25    b.  The names of persons on a transfer list established to fill vacan-
   26  cies in a comparable position shall be certified  therefrom  with  equal
   27  ranking for appointment.
   28    4.  Relative  seniority.  Where a preferred list exists containing the
   29  names of persons who have been suspended or demoted from a  position  in
   30  the  same  title  to  which  an  appointment is to be made, the relative
   31  seniority, determined in accordance with the provisions  of  subdivision
   32  three  of  section  eighty[,  subdivision three of section eighty-a] and
   33  subdivision seven of section eighty-five of this chapter, of the  person
   34  certified first on such preferred list willing to accept appointment and
   35  the  person  certified  first  on  the  transfer  list willing to accept
   36  appointment shall be compared and the person with the greater  seniority
   37  shall be certified first.
   38    S 4. Paragraphs a, b and e of subdivision 1 of section 79 of the civil
   39  service law, as added by chapter 315 of the laws of 1995, are amended to
   40  read as follows:
   41    a.  Where,  and to the extent that, an agreement between the state and
   42  an employee organization entered into pursuant to  article  fourteen  of
   43  this  chapter  so  provides, upon notification to the department that an
   44  employee in the state service is to be suspended or demoted  in  accord-
   45  ance with the provisions of section eighty [or eighty-a] of this article
   46  by reason of the state's exercise of its right to contract out for goods
   47  and  services,  and  receipt  of  the  information  required pursuant to
   48  section eighty-one-a of this article for purposes of establishing  reem-
   49  ployment  rosters,  at  least  ninety  days  prior  to the suspension or
   50  demotion of an affected employee, the department shall place the name of
   51  the employee upon a redeployment list. Such redeployment list  shall  be
   52  certified  for  filling positions in the same title or in any comparable
   53  title, as determined by the department,  before  certification  is  made
   54  from  any  other eligible list, placement roster, reemployment roster or
   55  preferred list.  The director of state operations is authorized to rede-
   56  ploy such employees to positions in appointing authorities of the execu-
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    1  tive branch. The department may extend the right to be placed on a rede-
    2  ployment list, in accordance with the provisions  of  this  section,  to
    3  employees not subject to the provisions of such agreement.
    4    b.  Orders  of  certification  of names from a redeployment list.  The
    5  names of persons on a redeployment list shall be certified therefrom for
    6  appointment in the order of their original appointments,  in  accordance
    7  with the provisions of subdivision three of section eighty [and subdivi-
    8  sion three of section eighty-a] of this article.
    9    e.   Termination  of  eligibility  for  appointment.  Eligibility  for
   10  appointment of an employee whose name appears  on  a  redeployment  list
   11  shall  terminate  at such time as the employee is redeployed pursuant to
   12  the provisions of this section to a position in the same salary grade as
   13  the position from which he or she has been suspended or demoted, or  has
   14  exercised  his  or her reemployment rights pursuant to the provisions of
   15  section eighty-one or eighty-one-a of this article,  provided,  however,
   16  that  eligibility  for  appointment  shall  terminate  no later than six
   17  months following the suspension or demotion of such employee in  accord-
   18  ance  with  the provisions of section eighty [or eighty-a] of this arti-
   19  cle. Upon such employee's suspension or demotion, the  department  shall
   20  place  the  name of such employee upon a preferred list, and a reemploy-
   21  ment roster, as  appropriate,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of
   22  sections eighty-one and [eight-one-a] EIGHTY-ONE-A of this article.
   23    S  5. Subdivision 1 of section 81 of the civil service law, as amended
   24  by chapter 283 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
   25    1. Establishment of preferred lists; general provisions. The  head  of
   26  any  department, office or institution in which an employee is suspended
   27  or demoted in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  [sections]  SECTION
   28  eighty  [and  eighty-a]  of  this chapter shall, upon such suspension or
   29  demotion, furnish the state  civil  service  department  or  appropriate
   30  municipal  commission, as the case may be, a statement showing his name,
   31  title or position, date of appointment, and the date of and  reason  for
   32  suspension  or  demotion.  It  shall  be  the duty of such civil service
   33  department or commission, as the case may be,  forthwith  to  place  the
   34  name  of  such  employee upon a preferred list, together with others who
   35  may have been suspended or demoted from the same or similar positions in
   36  the same jurisdictional class, and to certify such list, as  hereinafter
   37  provided, for filling vacancies in the same jurisdictional class; first,
   38  in  the  same  or  similar  position; second, in any position in a lower
   39  grade in line of promotion; and third, in any comparable position.  Such
   40  preferred  list  shall  be  certified  for filling a vacancy in any such
   41  position before certification is made from any other list,  including  a
   42  promotion  eligible  list,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that none of the
   43  persons on such preferred list was suspended  from  or  demoted  in  the
   44  department or suspension and demotion unit in which such vacancy exists.
   45  No  other name shall be certified from any other list for any such posi-
   46  tion until such preferred list is exhausted. The eligibility  for  rein-
   47  statement  of  a  person  whose  name appears on any such preferred list
   48  shall not continue for a period longer than four years from the date  of
   49  separation or demotion.
   50    S  6.  Subdivisions  1 and 5 of section 81-a of the civil service law,
   51  subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 140 of the laws of 1993 and subdivi-
   52  sion 5 as added by chapter 239 of the laws of 1992, are amended to  read
   53  as follows:
   54    1. Establishment of reemployment rosters in the state service; general
   55  provisions. The head of any department, office or institution from which
   56  an  employee  in  the  state  service  is  to be suspended or demoted in
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    1  accordance with the provisions of section eighty [or eighty-a]  of  this
    2  article,  shall,  at  least  twenty  days  prior  to  such suspension or
    3  demotion, furnish the state civil service department  with  a  statement
    4  showing  such  employee's  name, title or position, date of appointment,
    5  and the date of and reason for suspension or demotion. Upon such employ-
    6  ee's suspension or demotion, it shall be the duty of the  department  to
    7  place  the  name of such employee upon a reemployment roster for filling
    8  vacancies in any comparable position as determined  by  the  department,
    9  except  that  employees  suspended or demoted from positions in the non-
   10  competitive and labor classes may not be certified to fill vacancies  in
   11  the  competitive  class. Such reemployment roster shall be certified for
   12  filling a vacancy in any such position before certification is made from
   13  any other list, including a promotion eligible list, but not prior to  a
   14  preferred  list.  Eligibility  for  reinstatement of a person whose name
   15  appears on any such reemployment roster shall not continue for a  period
   16  longer than four years from the date of suspension or demotion provided,
   17  however, in no event shall eligibility for reinstatement  from  a  reem-
   18  ployment roster continue once the person is no longer eligible for rein-
   19  statement from a preferred list.
   20    5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
   21  may  disqualify for reinstatement and remove from a  reemployment roster
   22  the name of any otherwise eligible person who, by reason of physical  or
   23  mental  incapacity,  is found to be unable to satisfactorily perform the
   24  duties of the position for which such roster has  been  established,  or
   25  who has engaged in such misconduct as would warrant his or her dismissal
   26  from public employment, except that a person who is not completely phys-
   27  ically incapacitated and who is suspended or demoted pursuant to section
   28  eighty  [or  eighty-a]  of  this article because his or her position has
   29  been abolished or reduced, but who is certified for reinstatement to any
   30  position having the same physical  requirements  as  the  position  from
   31  which  such  person  was suspended or demoted, shall not be disqualified
   32  because of his or her incapacity, unless upon medical examination his or
   33  her incapacity has worsened to a degree that he or she would not be able
   34  to satisfactorily perform in such position. No person shall be disquali-
   35  fied pursuant to this subdivision unless he or  she  is  first  given  a
   36  written statement of the reasons therefor and an opportunity to be heard
   37  at  a hearing at which satisfactory proof of such reasons must be estab-
   38  lished by appropriate evidence, and at which  such  person  may  present
   39  independent  evidence  and be entitled to representation by counsel. The
   40  department shall designate a person to  hold  such  hearing  and  report
   41  thereon.
   42    S  7.  Subdivision  1  of  section  81-b  of the civil service law, as
   43  amended by chapter 140 of the laws  of  1993,  is  amended  to  read  as
   44  follows:
   45    1.  Establishment  of  placement rosters in the state service; general
   46  provisions.   The head of any department,  office  or  institution  from
   47  which  an employee in the state service is to be suspended or demoted in
   48  accordance with the provisions of section eighty [or eighty-a]  of  this
   49  article,  shall, no later than the date on which he or she furnishes the
   50  state civil service department with the  employee  information  required
   51  pursuant  to section eighty-one-a of this article for purposes of estab-
   52  lishing reemployment rosters, furnish the state civil service department
   53  with a statement showing such employee's name, title or  position,  date
   54  of appointment, and the anticipated date of and reason for suspension or
   55  demotion.  Upon  receiving such information, it shall be the duty of the
   56  department forthwith to place the name of such employee upon a placement
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    1  roster for filling vacancies in the same  title  or  in  any  comparable
    2  position   as  determined  by  the  department,  except  that  employees
    3  suspended or demoted from positions in  the  non-competitive  and  labor
    4  classes may not be certified to fill vacancies in the competitive class.
    5  Such  placement  roster  shall be certified for filling a vacancy in any
    6  such position before certification is made from any other list,  includ-
    7  ing  a  promotion  eligible list, but not prior to a preferred list or a
    8  reemployment roster. Eligibility for appointment of  an  employee  whose
    9  name  appears  on any such placement roster shall terminate at such time
   10  as  the  employee  is  suspended  or  demoted  in  accordance  with  the
   11  provisions  of  section eighty [or eighty-a] of this article.  Upon such
   12  employee's suspension or demotion, the department shall place  the  name
   13  of  such  employee  upon  a preferred list, and a reemployment roster as
   14  appropriate, in accordance with the provisions  of  sections  eighty-one
   15  and eighty-one-a of this article.
   16    S  8. Subdivision 7 of section 85 of the civil service law, as amended
   17  by chapter 532 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
   18    7. Preference in retention upon the abolition  of  positions.  In  the
   19  event  of  the  abolition  or  elimination  of any position in the civil
   20  service [for which eligible lists are established or  any  position  the
   21  incumbent  of which is encompassed by section eighty-a of this chapter],
   22  any suspension, demotion or displacement shall be made  in  the  inverse
   23  order  of the date of original appointment in the service subject to the
   24  following conditions: (1) blind  employees  shall  be  granted  absolute
   25  preference  in  retention; (2) the date of such original appointment for
   26  disabled veterans shall be deemed to be sixty months  earlier  than  the
   27  actual date, determined in accordance with section thirty of the general
   28  construction law; (3) the date of such original appointment for non-dis-
   29  abled  veterans  shall  be  deemed  to be thirty months earlier than the
   30  actual date, determined in accordance with section thirty of the general
   31  construction law; (4) no permanent competitive class employee subject to
   32  the jurisdiction of the civil service commission of the city of New York
   33  who receives an injury in the line of duty, as  defined  in  this  para-
   34  graph,  which  requires  immediate  hospitalization,  and  which  is not
   35  compensable through workmen's compensation may be suspended, demoted  or
   36  displaced pursuant to section eighty of this chapter within three months
   37  of  the  date  of  his  confinement,  provided  that medical authorities
   38  approved by such commission shall certify that the employee is not  able
   39  to  perform  the  duties  of  his  position; provided further, that such
   40  three-month period may be extended by  such  commission  for  additional
   41  periods  not  to  exceed one year each upon the certification of medical
   42  authorities selected by such commission  that  the  employee  is,  as  a
   43  result  of his injury, still not able to perform the duties of his posi-
   44  tion. An injury in the line of duty, as used herein, shall be  construed
   45  to  mean  an  injury  which is incurred as a direct result of the lawful
   46  performance of the duties of the position.  In  determining  whether  an
   47  injury  was  received in the line of duty, such commission shall require
   48  the head of the agency by which the employee is employed to certify that
   49  the injury was received as a direct result of the lawful performance  of
   50  the  employee's duties; and (5) the spouse of a veteran with one hundred
   51  percent service connected disability shall be deemed to be sixty  months
   52  earlier  than  the  actual  date,  determined in accordance with section
   53  thirty of the general construction law, provided, the  spouse  is  domi-
   54  ciled  with  the  veteran-spouse  and is the head of the household. This
   55  section shall not be construed as conferring any additional benefit upon
   56  such employee other than a preference in retention. Such employee  shall
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    1  be  subject  to  transfer  upon the abolition of his function within his
    2  agency or department.
    3    S 9. Section 86 of the civil service law, as amended by chapter 283 of
    4  the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
    5    S 86. Transfer  of veterans or exempt volunteer firemen upon abolition
    6  of positions. If the position in the non-competitive  or  in  the  labor
    7  class  held  by  any honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces of
    8  the United States who served therein  in  time  of  war  as  defined  in
    9  section  eighty-five  of this chapter, or by an exempt volunteer fireman
   10  as defined in the general municipal law, shall become unnecessary or  be
   11  abolished  for reasons of economy or otherwise, the honorably discharged
   12  veteran or exempt volunteer fireman holding such position shall  not  be
   13  discharged from the public service but shall be transferred to a similar
   14  position  wherein  a  vacancy exists, and shall receive the same compen-
   15  sation therein.  It is hereby made the duty of all persons clothed  with
   16  the  power of appointment to make such transfer effective.  The right to
   17  transfer herein conferred shall  continue  for  a  period  of  one  year
   18  following  the  date  of abolition of the position, and may be exercised
   19  only where a vacancy exists in an appropriate position to which transfer
   20  may be made at the time of demand for transfer.  Where the positions  of
   21  more than one such veteran or exempt volunteer fireman are abolished and
   22  a  lesser number of vacancies in similar positions exist to which trans-
   23  fer may be made, the veterans or exempt volunteer  firemen  whose  posi-
   24  tions  are  abolished shall be entitled to transfer to such vacancies in
   25  the order of their original appointment in the service.  Nothing in this
   26  section shall be construed to apply to the position  of  private  secre-
   27  tary,  cashier  or  deputy of any official or department.  [This section
   28  shall have no application to persons encompassed by section eighty-a  of
   29  this chapter.]
   30    S  10.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  3 of section 131 of the civil
   31  service law, as amended by chapter 733 of the laws of 1979,  is  amended
   32  to read as follows:
   33    (a)  If  such  an employee is demoted, or displaced to a position in a
   34  lower grade pursuant to [sections] SECTION eighty [or eighty-a] of  this
   35  chapter,  or  is appointed, transferred or reinstated to a position in a
   36  lower grade, he shall, upon such  demotion,  displacement,  appointment,
   37  transfer,  or  reinstatement,  receive  the  rate  of compensation which
   38  corresponds with the number of  annual  increments  and  the  percentage
   39  value  of  performance  advances  actually received in the salary grades
   40  from which and to which he is demoted, displaced, appointed, transferred
   41  or reinstated, as the case may be.
   42    S 11. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 11 and paragraph (f) of subdivision
   43  13 of section 3556 of the public authorities law, as added by chapter  5
   44  of the laws of 1997, are amended to read as follows:
   45    (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the corporation
   46  may  disqualify for reinstatement and remove from a  reemployment roster
   47  the name of any otherwise eligible person who, by reason of physical  or
   48  mental  incapacity,  is found to be unable to satisfactorily perform the
   49  duties of the position for which such roster has  been  established,  or
   50  who has engaged in such misconduct as would warrant his or her dismissal
   51  from public employment, except that a person who is not completely phys-
   52  ically incapacitated and who is suspended or demoted pursuant to section
   53  eighty  [or  eighty-a] of the civil service law because his or her posi-
   54  tion has been abolished or reduced,  but  who  is  certified  for  rein-
   55  statement  to  any position having the same physical requirements as the
   56  position from which such person was suspended or demoted, shall  not  be
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    1  disqualified because of his or her incapacity, unless upon medical exam-
    2  ination  his  or  her incapacity has worsened to a degree that he or she
    3  would not be able to satisfactorily perform in such position. No  person
    4  shall  be  disqualified pursuant to this subdivision unless he or she is
    5  first given a written statement of the reasons therefor and an  opportu-
    6  nity  to  be  heard  at  a  hearing  at which satisfactory proof of such
    7  reasons must be established by appropriate evidence, and at  which  such
    8  person  may  present  independent  evidence and be entitled to represen-
    9  tation by counsel. The corporation shall designate a person to hold such
   10  hearing and report thereon.
   11    (f) Eligibility for appointment of an employee whose name appears on a
   12  redeployment list shall terminate at such time as the employee is  rede-
   13  ployed  pursuant  to the provisions of this section to a position in the
   14  same salary grade as  the  position  from  which  he  or  she  has  been
   15  suspended  or  demoted,  or has exercised his or her reemployment rights
   16  pursuant to the provisions of section eighty-one or eighty-one-a of  the
   17  civil  service  law, provided, however, that eligibility for appointment
   18  shall terminate no later than six months  following  the  suspension  or
   19  demotion  of  such employee in accordance with the provisions of section
   20  eighty [or eighty-a] of the civil service law.    Upon  such  employee's
   21  suspension  or  demotion,  the  corporation shall place the name of such
   22  employee upon a preferred list, and a reemployment roster, as  appropri-
   23  ate,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions of subdivision eight of this
   24  section.
   25    S 12. This act shall take effect immediately.
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