NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A2743
SPONSOR: Pheffer Amato TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to salary schedule
parity
PURPOSE:
To provide for salary schedule parity for M/C employees.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Adds new section 137 to Civil Service law, requires that the
Salary Grade ranges in the salary schedules of State of New York's
Management and Confidential (M/C) employees be not less than those of
comparable Salary Grade ranges in the salary schedules of union-repre-
sented and similarly graded positions (Section 130 of Civil Service
Law).
Section 2. Enacting Clause
JUSTIFICATION:
This legislation requires that the Salary Grade ranges in the salary
schedules of State of New York's Management and Confidential (M/C)
employees be not less than those of comparable Salary Grade ranges in
the salary schedules of union-represented and similarly graded positions
(Section 130 of Civil Service Law). M/C employees are prohibited from
collective bargaining for salary and benefits by the State's Taylor Law.
They should not be, however, penalized in salary for that reason. M/C
Salary Schedules are often structurally inconsistent with salary sched-
ules of the Public Employee Federation (PEF) and Civil Service Employees
Association (CSEA). For example, a comparative review demonstrates that
M/C employees in the most populous Salary Grades can earn between $1,000
and $3,000 LESS per year in base salary than their PEF-represented coun-
terparts at the same Salary Grade! It is improper to compensate employ-
ees at radically different amounts across bargaining units when Salary
Grades (and sometime even titles) are equal! This legislation restores
parity between the salaries of unionized and non-unionized State of New
York employees, returns stability in earnings when employees transfer
between bargaining units, and most importantly treats M/C employees
equally and no less well than their union represented colleagues by
guaranteeing salaries comparable to those of their union-represented
colleagues.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Legislation
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined
EFFECTIVE DATE:
First of April after it shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2743
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to salary schedule
parity
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
2 137 to read as follows:
3 § 137. Salary schedule parity. Notwithstanding any other provision of
4 law to the contrary, employees in positions in the competitive, non-com-
5 petitive, and labor classes of the classified service of the state of
6 New York designated managerial or confidential under article fourteen of
7 this chapter shall be paid salary grade ranges not less than those of
8 comparable salary grade ranges in the salary schedules of union-repre-
9 sented positions that are equally or similarly graded. No current state
10 employee designated managerial or confidential shall be reduced in
11 current or prospective salary as a result.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
13 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04548-01-5
