Provides that a public employer is not required to pay increases in wages or benefits after the expiration of collective bargaining agreement pending negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4867
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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