Bill Text: NY S00548 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to providing financial equity to certain state employees who received a bargaining unit change; directs the governor's office of employee relations to conduct a study to determine if any state employee suffered a financial loss due to the public employment relations board decision C-6005; requires the state comptroller to make a payment to any employee determined to suffer a reduction in pay equal to the amount of such reduction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S00548 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00548-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 548 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to provide financial equity to certain state employees who received a bargaining unit change The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the 2 governor's office of employee relations, in consultation with the New 3 York state public employment relations board and the professional, 4 scientific and technical services unit shall conduct a study to deter- 5 mine if any state employee suffered a financial loss due to public 6 employment relations board decision C-6005 to change bargaining units 7 for certain employees. Such study shall be completed within one hundred 8 twenty days of the effective date of this act. 9 If any employee is found to have experienced a reduction in pay due to 10 such bargaining unit change, the governor's office of employee relations 11 shall notify such affected employee and the office of the state comp- 12 troller in writing within thirty days of issuance of such study. The 13 office of the state comptroller shall make a payment within thirty days 14 of receiving such written notice to any employee the governor's office 15 of employee relations determined suffered a reduction in pay equal to 16 the amount of such reduction. Such payment shall be in any form current- 17 ly allowed by law. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03035-01-9