Assembly Bill A6460

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Creates requirements of a public employer when a collective bargaining agreement has expired and a new agreement is not in place

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A6460 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง209-a, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6344
2013-2014: A4932
2017-2018: A6625
2019-2020: A5435
2021-2022: A4867
2023-2024: A1878

2015-A6460 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-A6460 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6460

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 25, 2015
                               ___________

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:

  Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1  of  section  209-a  of  the
civil  service  law,  as  amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2007, is
amended to read as follows:
  (e) to refuse to continue all the terms of an expired agreement  until
a new agreement is negotiated, unless the employee organization which is
a party to such agreement has, during such negotiations or prior to such
resolution  of such negotiations, engaged in conduct violative of subdi-
vision one of section two hundred ten of this article, PROVIDED,  HOWEV-
ER, THAT NOTHING HEREIN OR IN ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW SHALL REQUIRE A
PUBLIC EMPLOYER TO PAY HIGHER WAGES OR BENEFITS TO ANY EMPLOYEE BASED ON
LONGEVITY,  LENGTH OF SERVICE OR PASSAGE OF TIME AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF
SUCH AGREEMENT AND BEFORE A NEW AGREEMENT HAS BEEN NEGOTIATED, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY STEP INCREASES IN WAGES BASED  ON  EXISTING  WAGE
SCALES,  LONGEVITY  PAYMENTS,  INCREASED  VACATION  OR PERSONAL TIME, OR
OTHER SIMILAR INCREASES IN WAGES OR BENEFITS;
  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

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