Establishes public arbitration panels that shall take into consideration for employees of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority who are employed as bridge and tunnel officers and are peace officers, a comparison of peculiarities in regard to other trades or professions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6564
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 27, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE, GOLDFEDER -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the resolution of
disputes in the course of collective negotiations for employees of the
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority who are employed as bridge and
tunnel officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the civil
2 service law, as added by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (d) Such panel shall make a just and reasonable determination of
5 matters in dispute. In arriving at such determination, the panel shall
6 specify the basis for its findings, taking into consideration, in addi-
7 tion to any other relevant factors, the following:
8 (i) comparison of the wages, hours, fringe benefits, conditions and
9 characteristics of employment of the public employees involved in the
10 impasse proceeding with the wages, hours, fringe benefits, conditions
11 and characteristics of employment of other employees performing similar
12 work and other employees generally in public or private employment in
13 New York city or comparable communities;
14 (ii) the overall compensation paid to the employees involved in the
15 impasse proceeding, including direct wage compensation, overtime and
16 premium pay, vacations, holidays and other excused time, insurance,
17 pensions, medical and hospitalization benefits, food and apparel
18 furnished, and all other benefits received;
19 (iii) the impact of the panel's award on the financial ability of the
20 public employer to pay, on the present fares and on the continued
21 provision of services to the public;
22 (iv) changes in the average consumer prices for goods and services,
23 commonly known as the cost of living;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (v) the interest and welfare of the public; [and]
2 (vi) for employees of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority who
3 are employed as bridge and tunnel officers and are designated as peace
4 officers pursuant to subdivision twenty of section 2.10 of the criminal
5 procedure law, shall use comparison of peculiarities in regard to other
6 trades or professions, including specifically, (1) hazards of employ-
7 ment; (2) physical qualifications; (3) educational qualifications; (4)
8 mental qualifications; and (5) job training and skills; and
9 (vii) such other factors as are normally and customarily considered in
10 the determination of wages, hours, fringe benefits and other working
11 conditions in collective negotiations or impasse panel proceedings.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
13 ments to paragraph (d) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the civil
14 service law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expira-
15 tion of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
