Assembly Bill A5694

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Removes the requirement that a public employer continue terms of an expired agreement until a new agreement is negotiated with an employee organization

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A5694 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §209-a, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10187
2011-2012: A1329
2013-2014: A5106
2015-2016: A3242
2019-2020: A5408
2021-2022: A5524
2023-2024: A3655

2017-A5694 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the requirement that a public employer continue terms of an expired agreement until a new agreement is negotiated with an employee organization.

2017-A5694 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5694
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FITZPATRICK, LALOR -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service  law,  in  relation  to  removing  the
   requirement that a public employer continue terms of an expired agree-
   ment until a new agreement is negotiated with an employee organization

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 209-a of the civil service law, as
 amended by chapter 244 of the laws  of  2007,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1. Improper employer practices. It shall be an improper practice for a
 public  employer  or  its  agents  deliberately  (a)  to interfere with,
 restrain or coerce public employees in  the  exercise  of  their  rights
 guaranteed in section two hundred two of this article for the purpose of
 depriving  them  of  such  rights; (b) to dominate or interfere with the
 formation or administration of any employee organization for the purpose
 of depriving them of  such  rights;  (c)  to  discriminate  against  any
 employee  for  the purpose of encouraging or discouraging membership in,
 or participation in the activities of, any employee organization; (d) to
 refuse to negotiate in good faith with the duly recognized or  certified
 representatives  of its public employees; (e) [to refuse to continue all
 the terms of an expired agreement until a new agreement  is  negotiated,
 unless the employee organization which is a party to such agreement has,
 during  such  negotiations  or  prior to such resolution of such negoti-
 ations, engaged in conduct violative of subdivision one of  section  two
 hundred  ten  of this article; (f)] to utilize any state funds appropri-
 ated for any purpose to train managers, supervisors or other administra-
 tive personnel regarding methods to discourage union organization or  to
 discourage  an  employee from participating in a union organizing drive;
 or [(g)] (F) to fail to permit or refuse to afford a public employee the
 right, upon the employee's demand, to representation by a representative
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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