Bill Text: NY S07702 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7702 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts provisions relating to reduction of positions based upon seniority for sworn members of the division of correction of the sheriff's department of the county of Nassau; provides that abolition of positions or reduction in rank or salary grade shall be made in the inverse order of original appointment.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-14 - REFERRED TO RULES [S07702 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07702-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7702
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 14, 2012
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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 civil service law, in relation to reduction of posi-
         tions based upon seniority with an employer
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 80 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 1-e to read as follows:
    3    1-E.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS
    4  SECTION,  THE  SWORN  MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION OF THE SHER-
    5  IFF'S DEPARTMENT OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOW-
    6  ING PROCEDURE. WHERE, BECAUSE OF ECONOMY, CONSOLIDATION OR ABOLITION  OF
    7  FUNCTIONS,  CURTAILMENT  OF  ACTIVITIES  OR  OTHERWISE, POSITIONS IN THE
    8  COMPETITIVE CLASS ARE ABOLISHED OR REDUCED  IN  RANK  OR  SALARY  GRADE,
    9  SUSPENSION OR DEMOTION, AS THE CASE MAY BE, AMONG INCUMBENTS HOLDING THE
   10  SAME OR SIMILAR POSITIONS SHALL BE MADE IN THE INVERSE ORDER OF THE TIME
   11  SERVED  IN  THE GRADE OR TITLE IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENTAL JURIS-
   12  DICTION IN WHICH  SUCH  ABOLITION  OR  REDUCTION  OF  POSITIONS  OCCURS,
   13  SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION EIGHTY-FIVE OF
   14  THIS CHAPTER.  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, TIME IN RANK OR GRADE FOR THE PURPOSES
   15  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION SHALL ONLY ACCRUE PROSPECTIVELY FROM THE EFFECTIVE
   16  DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AND WHERE TIME IN RANK AND GRADE  FOR  TWO  OR
   17  MORE  INDIVIDUALS  IS  IDENTICAL,  TIME IN SERVICE SHALL BE USED FOR THE
   18  PURPOSES OF THIS PROCEDURE.   NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
   19  SUBDIVISION,  HOWEVER,  UPON  THE  ABOLITION  OR REDUCTION OF POSITIONS,
   20  THOSE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE NOT COMPLETED THEIR PROBATIONARY SERVICE  SHALL
   21  BE SUSPENDED OR DEMOTED, AS THE CASE MAY BE, BEFORE ANY PERMANENT INCUM-
   22  BENTS,  AND AMONG SUCH PROBATIONARY EMPLOYEES THE ORDER OF SUSPENSION OR
   23  DEMOTION SHALL BE DETERMINED AS IF SUCH EMPLOYEES WERE PERMANENT  INCUM-
   24  BENTS.
   25    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD16211-03-2