Bill Text: PA HB2319 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for collective bargaining impasses for correctional personnel.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-12 - Referred to LABOR RELATIONS [HB2319 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2319-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3344
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2319 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY BENNINGHOFF, DeWEESE, BELFANTI, BEYER, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, D. COSTA, DALEY, FLECK, GIBBONS, GOODMAN, HALUSKA, HELM, HUTCHINSON, KILLION, KORTZ, METZGAR, MURT, MUSTIO, READSHAW, REED, STERN AND VULAKOVICH, MARCH 12, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, MARCH 12, 2010
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 23, 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), entitled
"An act establishing rights in public employes to organize
and bargain collectively through selected representatives;
defining public employes to include employes of nonprofit
organizations and institutions; providing compulsory
mediation and fact-finding, for collective bargaining
impasses; providing arbitration for certain public employes
for collective bargaining impasses; defining the scope of
collective bargaining; establishing unfair employe and
employer practices; prohibiting strikes for certain public
employes; permitting strikes under limited conditions;
providing penalties for violations; and establishing
procedures for implementation," further providing for
collective bargaining impasses for correctional personnel.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 805 of the act of July 23, 1970 (P.L.563,
No.195), known as the Public Employe Relations Act, is amended
to read:
Section 805. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
act where representatives of units of guards at prisons or
mental hospitals or units of employes directly involved with and
necessary to the functioning of the courts of this Commonwealth
have reached an impasse in collective bargaining and mediation
as required in section 801 of this article has not resolved the
dispute, the impasse shall be submitted to a panel of
arbitrators whose decision shall be final and binding upon both
parties with the [proviso that the decisions] following
provisos:
(1) Decisions of the arbitrators which would require
legislative enactment to be effective shall be considered
advisory only.
(2) Decisions of the arbitrators must ensure that captains,
lieutenants, and first level supervisors employed by the
Department of Corrections receive not less than the same dollar
increase, including fringe benefits, excluding overtime and
festive holiday pay, as the highest ranking corrections officer
in the collective bargaining unit.
Section 2. The amendment of section 805 of the act shall
apply to mediations initiated on or after the effective date of
this section.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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