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PEF Position (1/12/00)

State Position (1/12/00)

Term of Contract

3 Year Agreement

4 Year Agreement

Article 4-Employee Organization Leave

Current Language

The State has proposed several changes in how PEF accesses its members to conduct the Union’s business. The State would require PEF to place many more union officials on full time Union leave, for which PEF would have to reimburse the State. (This would likely result in a massive dues increase). In addition they are seeking to reduce the number of EOL Days and the number of delegates who can attend the annual PEF Convention.

Article 7- Base Wage Increase

5% Raise effective April 1 of each year; salary schedule parity with CSEA

3% Raise effective October 1 of each year; the State has also proposed a one-time payment of $500 payable upon ratification of the Agreement.

Article 7-Downstate Adjustment

Increases every six months, reaching $1,200 by April 2002; extend benefit to part-time employees

Increases every year, reaching $1,200 by April 2003.

Article 7 - Performance Advances (increments)

Full increment payable to anyone who completes 13 payperiods of service prior to April 1 of each year.

Current Language

Article 7 - Performance Awards (Longevity Awards)

Added to "base salary" for the purposes of computing promotion salary.

Current Language

Article 7 - Inconvenience Pay

Increase rate from $400 per year to 5% of base salary; extend benefit to part-time employees

Current Language

Article 7 - Overtime

Prohibit Mandatory Overtime

Current Language

Article 7 - Deferred Compensation

Match employee contributions up to $300 per year

Not Interested in Adding Benefit to Contract

Article 7 - Hazardous Duty Pay

Extend benefit to all employees working in locations approved for hazardous duty pay; increase amount to 4% of hourly rate of pay

Current Language

Article 8 - Travel

Memorialize Comptroller's Guidelines as a "floor" in contract language

Travel benefits "float" with changes in Comptroller's Rules

Article 8 -Mileage

7¢ per mile for transport of Patients, Clients or Equipment

Current Language

Article 8 - Travel Allowance

$15 for each night in overnight travel status

Current Language

Article 8 - Pre-Tax Transportation Benefits

Allow for use of pre-tax accounts to the full extent provided in §132 of the Tax Code. Would allow for use for transit passes (e.g., TRANSITCHEK) or for pre-tax reimbursement for non-reimbursed parking expenses.

Agrees on the benefit(s) of such a program, but want to limit it to a pilot project in specific geographic areas.

Article 9 - Health Insurance

Both PEF and the State have made comprehensive proposals on Health Insurance. PEF is seeking to increase health insurance, dental and vision benefits. The State has proposed to increase the cost of different elements of the Empire Plan: Notably the Co-pay for doctor visits would rise to $12 by the end of the Agreement, and the prescription drug co-pay would change to $15 brand name/$5 generic from its current $8. They have also proposed a new co-pay for vision benefits of $25. The State is willing to consider benefit enhancements but only in the context of PEF accepting some of the State's proposals on cost increases.

Article 10- EAP

PEF has proposed increasing the appropriation to this Committee by $75,000. The annual appropriation will increase each year by 3%.

The State has proposed increasing the appropriation by $27,500 with no adjustment after the first year of the Agreement.

Article 12- Vacation

Raise cap on accrual from 40 to 60 days; allow employees to sell all unused vacation at time of separation. Denials of request to use vacation time based on "operational need" will be limited to the title of the person requesting the leave.

Current Language

Article 12 - Sick Leave

All employees will earn sick leave at the rate of 13 days per year; remove the cap on sick leave accrual and on the number of days used for retirement credit

Current Language

Article 12 - State of Emergency

Allow people to be absent from work without charge to accruals when any local official declares a state of emergency; provide employees who do report to work under such circumstances with compensatory time off for each day worked.

Current Language

Article 12 - Medical Documentation

Limit circumstances where documentation can be required

Current Language

Article 12 - Continuing Education

Allow employees leave for continuing education without charge to accruals

Current Language

Article 12 - Timekeeping

Amend current language to require that daily time records would be required only when overtime is worked.

Delete Contractual Prohibition on the use of timeclocks. (This change would permit the State to impose the use of timeclocks).

Article 13 - Workers' Compensation

Add Coverage for 10 month teachers who teach during the summer months; supplemental wages increase to full, regular pay; supplemental payments continued until employee has been offered and refused a light duty assignment.

Current Language

Article 15 - Professional Development Committee

Increased funding for each year of the Agreement; add language to permit the payment of professional licensure fees; add a program to maintain and enhance computer literacy skills; develop a program of free tuition at SUNY.

Increased funding in the last three years of the Agreement.

Article 19 - Parking

Add a parking stipend of $25/month for employees who are not provided a State owned or State subsidized space within 1/2 mile of their workplace.

Current Language

Article 22 - Protection of Employees

Add language to extend the notice period from 60 days to one year; expand benefits to include all positions eliminated by the State; integrate function of Article 21 committee

Integrate function of Article 21 committee.

Article 25 - Seniority

Pass days to be assigned based on strict seniority; Assignment to work locations, shift, overtime, and voluntary transfers made based on modified seniority. (Assignment made based on seniority unless there is an identification of differences affecting employee's ability to perform satisfactorily).

Add language to assure that once an employee has been approved for vacation via a "bid" process, a more senior employee cannot pre-empt the request.

Article 31- Standby Oncall

Increase amount of pay from 15% to 30%; make payments bi-weekly instead of quarterly

Current Language

Article 32 - Workday Workweek

Add language to provide notice to all employees of change in shift.

Current Language

Article 33 - Discipline

Limit suspensions to 30 days; provide PEF with a copy of the Notice of Discipline; amend language to clarify that changes in shift, pass days, work location or station shall not be made for the purpose of imposing discipline (current standard is that such actions shall not be for the "sole" purpose of imposing discipline).

Modify article to create time and attendance umpire to resolve NODs quickly; impose a schedule of offenses to be used to determine penalties for time and attendance cases; eliminate AAA as the administrator of the panel of arbitrators; move from splitting costs to "loser pays".

Add language to require employees charged with a felony on misdemeanor (other than traffic infractions), to report the charge to their employer.

Article 34 - Grievance and Arbitration Procedure

Untimely answers will result in grievance being automatically sustained; modify grievance timeframes

Modify grievance timeframes

Article 42 - Child Care Committee

Increase the appropriation in each year of the Agreement

Increase the appropriation in each year of the Agreement; Eliminate the grants to specific child care centers; provide an appropriation of $200/year into pre-tax account for child and family care expenses.