BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 20, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
AB
1983 (Lackey) - As Introduced February 16, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill requires certain state agencies to develop policies
that provide preference for shift assignments, vacation, and
overtime based on classification seniority.
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1)Requires, by January 1, 2018, state agencies that operate two
or more shifts per day to develop policies that allow excluded
supervisory employees to utilize classification seniority to
obtain their preferred shift assignments, vacations, and
overtime.
2)Requires management of these agencies to develop and maintain
these policies by meeting with supervisory employee
organization.
3)Specifies that the above provisions do not apply to peace
officers employed by the Department of California Highway
Patrol, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or
the State Department of Developmental Services.
FISCAL EFFECT:
Potential significant one-time administrative costs to affected
state agencies to develop and implement the policies pursuant to
this bill.
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose and background. According to the author, this bill
would help ensure that excluded employees have more scheduling
stability to direct their lives and help management of public
agencies combat favoritism in the workplace.
Excluded employees, unlike represented state employees, do not
have the right to obtain their preferred work shifts based on
their seniority. The author argues that this has led to many
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civil service excluded employees to be bounced around from one
shift to another without any control. This bill is intended to
ensure that all state agencies that operate two or more shifts
develop a statewide policy for excluded employees to utilize
their civil service classification
2)Prior legislation. SB 1071 (Beall) in 2014 would have provided
state excluded supervisory employees operating two or more
work shifts per day, the right to obtain work shifts based on
seniority, as specified. SB 1071 was vetoed by Governor
Brown. The veto message stated, in part, "This bill is
unnecessary. Several departments that operate multiple shifts
and who have deemed it to be in the best interest of the
department to provide seniority shift bidding have done so,
including one department that applies this practice to
supervisory employees. Unfortunately, this bill would
circumvent that discretion. I encourage those departments
without post and bid in place for excluded employees to meet
with supervisors for further discussion."
Analysis Prepared by:Luke Reidenbach / APPR. / (916)
319-2081