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Management/Confidential budget bulletin is in
The 2017-18 budget was passed over the weekend and now the budget bulletin authorizing raises for the state’s management/confidential employees is in too. According to OMCE, which represents th...
https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/274078/managementconfidential-pay-bill-is-in/
Lawmakers in resolutions reject plans for Medicare co-pay for high income public retirees
Senate and Assembly lawmakers in their budget resolutions have come out against a proposal to add a Medicare surcharge for so-called high income public sector retirees, similar to what the federa...
Blizzard shifted north, state workers buried in mixed messages
While they got more than 40 inches in some spots, residents of New York’s six northernmost counties are still puzzling over how they were left out of the forecast until what seemed like the las...
PEF/MC pay bill is signed
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed the PEF/MC pay bill. That clears the way for state employees represented by the Public Employees Federation and those in the management/confidential class to get thei...
https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/272772/pefmc-pay-bill-is-signed/
Civil service chief: State workforce lacks ‘cutting edge skills,’ regarding specialized tech jobs
“The state workforce doesn’t always have the cutting edge skills…or the talent,’’ required for some specialized information technology tasks, New York’s acting head of civil service t...
Public employees in NYC now offered paid leave for prostate screenings
All public employees can now receive paid leave for prostate cancer screenings. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed on Thursday a law that gives public employees up to four hours each year to receive prosta...
PEF reminds members that 2 percent raise, if ratified, comes in July
Officials at the Public Employees Federation, who are currently in contract talks with the state but have gotten a 2 percent retroactive raise from April 2015, are reminding members that they nee...
As Somos starts, Cuomo announces diversity council
Just in time for this weekend’s Somos el Futuro conference in Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is rolling out some efforts to increase diversity in the nearly 75 percent white state workforce. Here ar...
State workers sent home from flooded 40 N. Pearl
A flood that started with what we’re told was a burst pipe on the eighth floor of the Ten Eyck state office building at 40 North Pearl St. in Albany has meant an afternoon off for state employe...
https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/244950/state-workers-sent-home-from-flooded-40-n-pearl/
Unions toot horns over signing of Public Employee Whistleblowers Protection Act
A bill that will protect state workers who blow the whistle at their workplace was signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this week. The new law repeals a requirement that whistleblowers first notif...