Bill Text: NY S06788 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to salary adjustments according to plan and step-ups or increments.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Vetoed) 2017-12-18 - VETOED MEMO.243 [S06788 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06788-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6788
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the  public  authorities  law,  in  relation  to  salary
          adjustments according to plan and step-ups or increments
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  3  of  section  3669  of  the
     2  public  authorities  law, as added by chapter 84 of the laws of 2000, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) During a control period, upon a finding by the  authority  that  a
     5  wage  freeze  is  essential  to  the adoption or maintenance of a county
     6  budget or a financial plan that is in compliance with  this  title,  the
     7  authority,  after  enactment  of  a resolution so finding, may declare a
     8  fiscal crisis. Upon making such a declaration, the  authority  shall  be
     9  empowered to order that all increases in salary or wages of employees of
    10  the county and employees of covered organizations which will take effect
    11  after  the  date  of  the order pursuant to collective bargaining agree-
    12  ments, other analogous contracts or interest arbitration awards, now  in
    13  existence  or hereafter entered into, requiring such salary increases as
    14  of any date thereafter are suspended. Such order may also  provide  that
    15  all increased payments for holiday and vacation differentials, and shift
    16  differentials[,  salary  adjustments  according  to plan and step-ups or
    17  increments] for employees of the county and employees of covered  organ-
    18  izations  which will take effect after the date of the order pursuant to
    19  collective bargaining agreements, other analogous contracts or  interest
    20  arbitration  awards  requiring  such  increased  payments as of any date
    21  thereafter are, in the same  manner,  suspended.  Such  order  may  also
    22  provide  that all increased payments for salary adjustments according to
    23  plan and step-ups or increments be suspended;  provided,  however,  when
    24  (i) the county executive provides a four year financial plan approved by
    25  the  county  legislature pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision two of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11662-01-7
        S. 6788                             2
     1  section thirty-six hundred sixty-seven of this title and  the  authority
     2  determines,  pursuant  to  paragraph  (b) of such subdivision, that such
     3  financial plan is complete and complies with the standards set forth  in
     4  such  subdivision,  and  (ii) the authority makes a certification to the
     5  county setting forth revenue estimates agreed to  by  the  authority  in
     6  accordance  with such determination, the salary adjustments according to
     7  plan and step-ups or increments shall not be suspended for each year  in
     8  which  the four year financial plan has been certified. For the purposes
     9  of computing the pension base of retirement  allowances,  any  suspended
    10  salary  or  wage increases and any suspended other payments shall not be
    11  considered as part of compensation or final compensation  or  of  annual
    12  salary  earned  or  earnable. The suspensions authorized hereunder shall
    13  continue until one year after the date of the order and, to  the  extent
    14  of  any  determination  of  the  authority  that  a continuation of such
    15  suspensions, to a date specified by the authority, is necessary in order
    16  to achieve the objectives of the financial plan, such suspensions  shall
    17  be continued to the date specified by the authority, which date shall in
    18  no  event  be later than the end of the interim finance period, provided
    19  that such suspensions shall terminate with respect to employees who have
    20  agreed to a deferral of salary or wage increase upon  the  certification
    21  of  the  agreement  by  the  authority pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
    22  subdivision.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
    24  have been in full force and effect on and after October 1, 2016.