BILL NUMBER: S1724 Revised 05/29/25
SPONSOR: JACKSON
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to employee represen-
tation of state employees designated managerial or confidential
 
PURPOSE:
Recognizes employee representation of state employees designated manage-
rial or confidential.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Amends section 208 of Civil Service law, by adding new subdi-
vision 4-a, requires a public employer to notify within 30 days of
hiring M/C employee, an organization that advocates for managerial or
confidential employees, of such employee's name, address, job title,
employing agency, department, or other operating unit, and work
location. Also within 30 days of notification, the employer shall allow
the organization to meet with such employee for a reasonable amount of
time during such employee's work time without charge to leave credits,
unless otherwise specified within an existing agreement, policy or
procedure currently existing for public employees who are designated
managerial or confidential, provided, however, that the arrangements for
such meeting must be scheduled in consultation with a designated repre-
sentative of the public employer. If the Public employer conducts new
employee orientations, the public employer shall provide an organization
that advocates for managerial or confidential employees, as such employ-
ees are designated pursuant to subdivision 7 of section 201 of this
article, mandatory access to such new employee orientations.
Such organizations shall receive not less than ten days' notice in
advance of an orientation, except that a shorter notice may be provided
in a specific instance where there is an urgent need critical to the
employer's operations that was not reasonably foreseeable to provide
such notice. The structure, time, and manner of exclusive representative
access shall be determined through mutual agreement between such organ-
ization and the employer.
Section 2. Enacting Clause Date
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Since 1976, the Organization of New York State Management Confidential
Employees (OWE) has been the sole voice for the state's managerial and
confidential workforce. While the State's Taylor Law prohibits M/Cs from
organizing for the purposes of collective bargaining, OMCE has worked as
their advocate for decades to ensure that M/C employees are represented
and have a voice in State government. This bill adds new provisions in
State law related to M/C employee representation in New York State.
In 2018, New York State amended the Civil Service Law to require public
employers to notify and provide employee organizations certain informa-
tion for newly hired, promoted and transferred employees, as well as the
ability of the employee organizations to meet with such employees and
attend employee orientations. M/C employees were not covered by that
legislation. This bill would expand the current law to include M/C
employees and organizations that advocate for M/Cs.This gives OMCE with
footing equal to that of the State's public sector unions.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

Statutes affected:
S1724: 208 civil service law