Provides for collective negotiations by the office of employee relations to obtain employee organizations' consent to a State Agency Fiscal Efficiency program that would allow for full-time state employees to voluntarily reduce their work schedules, by one day per week, without a reduction in any of their fringe benefits.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
795
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
___________
Introduced by M. of A. McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to direct the office of employee relations to enter into collec-
tive negotiations for the purpose of seeking to obtain the assent of
employee organizations to the State Agency Fiscal Efficiency Program
that would allow for full-time state employees to voluntarily reduce
their work schedules
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The office of employee relations shall enter into collec-
2 tive negotiations for the purpose of seeking to obtain the assent of
3 employee organizations to the State Agency Fiscal Efficiency Program
4 (SAFE) that would allow for full-time state employees to voluntarily
5 reduce their work schedules, by one day per week, without a reduction in
6 any of their fringe benefits. Under this program only wages would be
7 reduced, by 20 percent per pay period. The employees' pension benefits
8 would be calculated based on a five day work week, which would be their
9 "pension salary". The three percent employee contribution costs for the
10 one day per week the employee is off, would be paid by the employer.
11 Employees participating in the SAFE program would be treated like full-
12 time employees for their accrual of personal leave, vacation, and sick
13 leave. There would be no reduction in health or dental benefits for
14 employees. They would also be eligible for all holidays. Participants
15 would be required to commit to the SAFE program for a minimum of 12
16 months but no more than 36 months. This program would be optional for
17 employers, who could target employees they deem not eligible, including
18 but not limited to employees that hold a position critical to public
19 health and safety.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01542-01-9
