Bill Text: NY S01939 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S01939 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01939-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1939

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD04138-01-1