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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A1878
SPONSOR: Goodell TITLE OF BILL:
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
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To amend the civil service law to provide 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.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
This act amends section 209-a(1)(e)of the civil service law to specify
that a public employer is not required to pay public employees step
increases in wages or other increases in wages or benefits based on
longevity after the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement and
before a new collective bargaining agreement has been negotiated.
JUSTIFICATION:
Many public sector collective bargaining agreements provide wage and
benefit increases to employees based on their length of employment, such
as step increases in wages based on a specified wage scale, longevity
payments, increased vacation or personal time, or other similar
increases in wages or benefits. As a result, public employers often face
significant employee cost increases even after the expiration of a
collective bargaining agreement. In addition to increasing the cost of
government, these built-in cost increases reduce the incentive for
public employees to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with the
public employer. This act would freeze all employee wages and benefits
pending the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
A.63442011/2012 - Held for consideration in Governmental Employees
A.49322013/2014 - Held for consideration in Governmental Employees
A.64602015/2016 - Held for consideration in Governmental Employees
A.66252017/2018 - Held for consideration in Governmental Employees
A.54352019/2020 - Held for consideration in Governmental Employees
A.48672021/2022 - Held for consideration in Governmental Employees
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
This would reduce the costs to the State and other public employers
after the expiration of a collective bargaining and agreement and
before, a new collective bargaining agreement has been negotiated.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1878
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2023
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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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