Senate Bill S1750

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S1750

SPONSOR: JACKSON
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to comparable salary
and other benefits

 
PURPOSE:

Provides for comparable salary and other benefits for managerial or
confidential employees.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Adds section 137 to the Civil Service law, requiring M/C
employees receive an increase in salary at least equal to the percentage
of the general salary increases provided to employees in a bargaining
unit that receives the highest percentage general salary increase. If a
lump sum payment is provided to employees in a bargaining unit in place
of or in addition to a general salary increase, the largest lump sum
payment shall also be paid to state employees designated managerial or
              

confidential under article 14 of this chapter.

Section 2. Enacting Clause

 
JUSTIFICATION:

State of New York employees designated Managerial or Confidential (M/C)
are precluded from collective bargaining pursuant to the Taylor Law.
These 11,000 M/C employees, however, deserve the same general salary
increases that their union-represented counterparts obtain through
collective bargaining and without delay. In past years, the salaries of
M/C employees have lagged those of other State employees.  In 2009 and
2010, only M/C employees were denied general salary increases while
union-represented employees were granted 3%. and 4% raises, respective-
ly. Between 2015 and 2019, withheld M/C raises were incrementally
restored to the M/C salary schedules, but the result of this withholding
was a cumulative loss of many millions of dollars in back pay and bene-
fits that was never recouped. Additionally structural inequity continues
in today's M/C salary schedules. Again in April 2020, M/C employees had
their general salary increases withheld until July 2021, while union-re-
presented employees received their salary increases as scheduled in
2020.This bill precludes this and future Administrations from penalizing
M/C employees by selectively withholding their general salary increases.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Legislation

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
April 1St next succeeding enactment date.