Bill Text: NY A06460 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the requirements of a public employer when a collective bargaining agreement has expired and a new agreement is not in place.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-24 - held for consideration in governmental employees [A06460 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06460-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6460
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 25, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. GOODELL, TENNEY, FITZPATRICK -- Multi-Sponsored
         by -- M. of A. KATZ -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
         Governmental Employees
       AN  ACT  to amend the civil service law, in relation to the requirements
         of a public  employer  when  a  collective  bargaining  agreement  has
         expired and a new agreement is not in place
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1  of  section  209-a  of  the
    2  civil  service  law,  as  amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2007, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (e) to refuse to continue all the terms of an expired agreement  until
    5  a new agreement is negotiated, unless the employee organization which is
    6  a party to such agreement has, during such negotiations or prior to such
    7  resolution  of such negotiations, engaged in conduct violative of subdi-
    8  vision one of section two hundred ten of this article, PROVIDED,  HOWEV-
    9  ER, THAT NOTHING HEREIN OR IN ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW SHALL REQUIRE A
   10  PUBLIC EMPLOYER TO PAY HIGHER WAGES OR BENEFITS TO ANY EMPLOYEE BASED ON
   11  LONGEVITY,  LENGTH OF SERVICE OR PASSAGE OF TIME AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF
   12  SUCH AGREEMENT AND BEFORE A NEW AGREEMENT HAS BEEN NEGOTIATED, INCLUDING
   13  WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY STEP INCREASES IN WAGES BASED  ON  EXISTING  WAGE
   14  SCALES,  LONGEVITY  PAYMENTS,  INCREASED  VACATION  OR PERSONAL TIME, OR
   15  OTHER SIMILAR INCREASES IN WAGES OR BENEFITS;
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09057-02-5