Provides for comparable salary and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confidential which shall not be withheld unless an employee has received a formal written performance evaluation rating of unsatisfactory or its equivalent.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8521
SPONSOR: Pheffer Amato TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to comparable salary
and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confi-
dential
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL::
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that managerial or confidential
state employees receive their Performance Advancement Adjustments on a
timely basis on par with their union-represented colleagues.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS::
Section 1 adds a new Section 137 to the Civil Service Law that requires
that managerial or confidential state employees shall receive perform-
ance advancement adjustments on April first of each fiscal year.
Section 2 is the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION::
This bill, which carries no cost, will not only ensure the timely
payment of salary adjustments for 11,000 management and confidential
(M/C) employees, but confirm that M/C employees of the State of New York
will be treated no differently than their union-represented coworkers.
On at least two occasions, M/C employees did not receive their Perform-
ance Advancement Adjustments on a timely basis. These salary adjustments
are routinely made on an annual basis to State employees as they advance
within their salary grade from their hiring rate.
Such adjustments reflect an increase in pay commensurate with each
employee's greater experience on the job. In fact, this process is
explicitly outlined in the M/C Employee Handbook published by the State
of New York. Union-represented employees of the State of New York
consistently receive such salary increases in accordance with time
frames set in their respective collective bargaining agreements; M/C
employees lack such protection as they cannot, by law, negotiate terms
and conditions of employment.
This bill addresses the issue by ensuring that M/C employees receive
their Performance Advancement Adjustments on a timely basis on par with
their union-represented colleagues.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY::
New bill.
EFFECTIVE DATE::
This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 15 the
date on which it shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8521
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to comparable salary
and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confi-
dential
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
2 137 to read as follows:
3 § 137. Comparable salary and other benefits. Notwithstanding any other
4 provision of law to the contrary, state employees designated managerial
5 or confidential under article fourteen of this chapter shall receive
6 performance advancement adjustments equivalent to one sixth of the sala-
7 ry range for such employee's salary grade on April first of each fiscal
8 year following completion of each year of service in grade. As a result
9 of such adjustment, no employee salary shall exceed the job rate of
10 their salary grade. Performance advancement adjustments due any manage-
11 rial or confidential employee shall not be withheld unless an employee
12 has received a formal written performance evaluation rating of unsatis-
13 factory or its equivalent.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
15 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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