Key Votes
SB 5 - Collective Bargaining Rights for Public Employees - Key Vote
Ohio Key Votes
Stages
- March 31, 2011 Executive Signed
- March 30, 2011 Senate Concurrence Vote Passed
- March 30, 2011 House Bill Passed
- March 2, 2011 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 1, 2011 Introduced
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Legislation - Signed (Executive) - March 31, 2011
Title: Collective Bargaining Rights for Public Employees
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (Senate) (17-16) - March 30, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Collective Bargaining Rights for Public Employees
Vote to pass a bill that limits collective bargaining rights for public sector workers.
-Prohibits the following subjects from being included in collective bargaining (Sec. 4417.08):
-The conduct and grading of civil service examinations, the rating of candidates, the establishment of eligible lists from these examinations, and the original appointments from the eligible lists;
-Health care benefits, except that the amount of the cost of those benefits for which a public employer and the public employees of the public employer pays;
-The payment of a contribution by a public employer to the public employees retirement system, the Ohio police and pension fund, the state teachers retirement system;
-The state highway patrol retirement system, or the school employees retirement system on behalf of an employee, contributor, or teacher, as applicable, that the employee, contributor, or teacher otherwise is require to pay; and
-The privatization of a public employer's services or contracting out of the public employer's work; and -The number of employees required to be on duty or employed in any department, division, or facility of a public employer.
-Specifies that the only items that are subject to collective bargaining are wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment (Sec. 4417.08).
-Specifies that unfair labor practice for an employee organization, its agents, or representatives, or public employees include, but are not limited to, the following (Sec. 4117.11):
-Communicating or attempting to engage in other direct dealings during the period of negotiations with elected or appointed officials of the public employer, other than those individuals designated to represent the public employer;
-Induce or encourage any individual to engage in a secondary boycott whether under the existing agreement or as part of another employee organization's concerted activity; or
-Engage in any picketing, striking, or other concerted refusal to work.
-Authorizes the board of education to procure and pay up to 85% of the cost of a health care plan for any of the following (Sec. 3313.202):
-The teaching employees of the school district;
-The nonteaching employees of the school district; and
-The dependent children and spouses of employees for whom coverage is procured.
-Requires that the health care benefits provided to a management level employee shall be the same as any benefits provided to other employees of the same public employer (Sec. 124.81).
-Requires state boards and agencies to use performance as the only basis when establishing a salary schedule or an employee's progression through the salary schedule.
-Reduces sick leave with pay from 4.60 to 3.10 (Sec. 124.38).
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (53-44) - March 30, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Collective Bargaining Rights for Public Employees
Vote to pass a bill that limits collective bargaining rights for public sector workers.
- -The conduct and grading of civil service examinations, the rating of candidates, the establishment of eligible lists from these examinations, and the original appointments from the eligible lists;
-Health care benefits, except that the amount of the cost of those benefits for which a public employer and the public employees of the public employer pays;
-The payment of a contribution by a public employer to the public employees retirement system, the Ohio police and pension fund, the state teachers retirement system; the state highway patrol retirement system, or the school employees retirement system on behalf of an employee, contributor, or teacher, as applicable, that the employee, contributor, or teacher otherwise is required to pay;
-The privatization of a public employer's services or contracting out of the public employer's work; and
-The number of employees required to be on duty or employed in any department, division, or facility of a public employer.
- -Communicating or attempting to engage in other direct dealings during the period of negotiations with elected or appointed officials of the public employer, other than those individuals designated to represent the public employer;
-Induce or encourage any individual to engage in a secondary boycott whether under the existing agreement or as part of another employee organization's concerted activity; or
-Engage in any picketing, striking, or other concerted refusal to work.
- -The teaching employees of the school district;
-The nonteaching employees of the school district; and
-The dependent children and spouses of employees for whom coverage is procured.
-Requires that the health care benefits provided to a management level employee shall be the same as any benefits provided to other employees of the same public employer (Sec. 124.81).
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (17-16) - March 2, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Collective Bargaining Rights for Public Employees
Vote to pass a bill that limits collective bargaining rights for public sector workers.
-Prohibits the following subjects from being included in collective bargaining (Sec. 4417.08):
-The conduct and grading of civil service examinations, the rating of candidates, the establishment of eligible lists from these examinations, and the original appointments from the eligible lists;
-Health care benefits, except that the amount of the cost of those benefits for which a public employer and the public employees of the public employer pays;
-The payment of a contribution by a public employer to the public employees retirement system, the Ohio police and pension fund, the state teachers retirement system;
-The state highway patrol retirement system, or the school employees retirement system on behalf of an employee, contributor, or teacher, as applicable, that the employee, contributor, or teacher otherwise is require to pay; and
-The privatization of a public employer's services or contracting out of the public employer's work; and -The number of employees required to be on duty or employed in any department, division, or facility of a public employer.
-Specifies that the only items that are subject to collective bargaining are wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment (Sec. 4417.08).
-Specifies that unfair labor practice for an employee organization, its agents, or representatives, or public employees include, but are not limited to, the following (Sec. 4117.11):
-Communicating or attempting to engage in other direct dealings during the period of negotiations with elected or appointed officials of the public employer, other than those individuals designated to represent the public employer;
-Induce or encourage any individual to engage in a secondary boycott whether under the existing agreement or as part of another employee organization's concerted activity; or
-Engage in any picketing, striking, or other concerted refusal to work.
-Authorizes the board of education to procure and pay up to 85% of the cost of a health care plan for any of the following (Sec. 3313.202):
-The teaching employees of the school district;
-The nonteaching employees of the school district; and
-The dependent children and spouses of employees for whom coverage is procured.
-Requires that the health care benefits provided to a management level employee shall be the same as any benefits provided to other employees of the same public employer (Sec. 124.81).
-Requires state boards and agencies to use performance as the only basis when establishing a salary schedule or an employee's progression through the salary schedule.
-Reduces sick leave with pay from 4.60 to 3.10 (Sec. 124.38).
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - Feb. 1, 2011
Title: Collective Bargaining Rights for Public Employees