Parties may negotiate pre-disciplinary suspension procedures in the course of collective bargaining
Transport Workers Union of Greater N.Y. v Bianco, 2015 NY Slip Op 06041, Appellate Division, First Department
The Appellate Division said Supreme Court properly dismissed the Transport Workers Union's complaint alleging that the collective bargaining agreement provision setting forth procedures for pre-disciplinary suspensions was void under Civil Service Law §75.
The court said that "Rights under Civil Service Law §75 may be supplemented, modified or replaced by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement," which is the case here with respect to disciplinary grievance procedures set forth under the Civil Service Law, “including those concerning pre-disciplinary suspensions.”
§76.4 of the Civil Service Law, in pertinent part, provides that §§75 and 76 of the Civil Service Law relating to the removal or suspension of “officers or employees in the competitive class of the civil service of thestate or any civil division” may be supplemented, modified or replaced by agreements negotiated between the state and an employee organization pursuant to Article 15 of the Civil Service Law.
In Antinore v State, 40 NY2d 6, the Court said that a union could bargain away a collective bargaining unit member’s statutory disciplinary rights in favor of an alternative disciplinary procedure as long as the alternate procedure provided constitutional due process protections equivalent to those available under the statutory procedure that it replaced.
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