Bill Text: NJ A3778 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Reaffirms continuation of Rutgers Institute of Management and Labor Relations; appropriates $750,000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-11 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Higher Education Committee [A3778 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3778-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3778

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 22, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Hall

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Reaffirms continuation of Rutgers Institute of Management and Labor Relations; appropriates $750,000.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Labor Committee on March 11, 2024, with amendments.

  

An Act reaffirming the continuation of the Rutgers Institute of Management and Labor Relations, supplementing Chapter 65 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, and making an appropriation.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    The Legislature finds and declares that Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, should take the lead in expanding educational resources to support working people at a time of extreme inequality, and when the workforce is going through a major shift including mass withdrawal from labor market participation, increased strike activity, new organizing, and changing workplace dynamics.  This is a key time where labor and management need to cooperate to find common ground, just as it was in 1947.  Therefore, on this, its 77th anniversary, we reaffirm the establishment in 1947 at the State University of New Jersey an Institute of Management and Labor Relations.

 

     2.    The purpose of this act is to promote harmony and cooperation between management and labor and foster a greater understanding of industrial and labor relations and other work-related issues, thereby enhancing the unity and welfare of the people of the State.

 

     3.    a.  The Institute of Management and Labor Relations, through its extension division, shall continue to establish at convenient centers throughout the State and remote programs of instruction designed to achieve the purposes set forth in section 2 of this act, and to bring about, among management, labor, and the public, better understanding of their mutual problems and obligations.

     b.    These programs of instruction may consist of instruction given in classes or by means of lectures, conferences, institutes, demonstrations, forums, webinars, or other informal educational services found to be particularly effective in teaching adults.

     c.     Tuition for all extension instruction in the Institute of Management and Labor Relations' extension programs shall be affordable and, when possible, free to residents of New Jersey.  The Institute of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, may establish a registration fee or other incidental fees in connection with the operation of the educational activities.

     4.    The Institute of Management and Labor Relations shall continue to conduct applied research in the field of labor-management relations and on other work and employment-related issues in order to identify and analyze problems and develop educational and policy solutions to those problems.

 

     5.    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey shall continue to appoint an advisory council for the Institute of Management and Labor Relations consisting of ¹six¹ representatives ¹as follows: one representative¹ of ¹public sector¹ labor¹[,] and one representative of private sector labor, both nominated by the New Jersey State AFL-CIO, two representatives of¹ management, and ¹two representatives of¹ the public¹[, in equal numbers] nominated by the Dean of the School of Management of Labor Relations at Rutgers, The State University¹.  The advisory council shall advise Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey as to the manner of carrying out the purposes of this act¹, including all matters and plans concerning budgeting for the operation of the school and any proposals for capital projects for the school¹.  Members of the advisory council shall serve without compensation but shall receive reimbursement for their actual and necessary expenses.

 

     6.    There is appropriated from the General Fund an amount not to exceed $750,000 annually for the Institute of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, which amount shall be used to fund the requirements of this act.  These funds shall augment and not replace the portion of State funds allocated to the budget of the Institute of Management and Labor Relations under the university's budgeting model.

 

     7.    This act shall take effect immediately.