PEF’s geographic reassignment bill, S6652, has passed both houses of the legislature.  It provides reasonable safeguards in situations where the State seeks to reassign civil service employees to a different geographic location from their normal work site.  This bill would require that if an employee is to be involuntarily reassigned to a work location outside the county where he or she presently works, or a contiguous county, then the person reassigned must be selected on the basis of seniority, with the least senior being reassigned to the new location.  This bill removes the potential for management to use an arbitrary justification in determining the involuntarily transfer of an employee.

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

As a state employee and member of the Public Employees Federation, I'm writing to ask that you sign S6652, which will limit the involuntary geographic reassignment of employees covered under Civil Service Law.

Under current law, public employees may be involuntarily reassigned without consideration of their years of service to the state. While this bill does not prohibit reassignments, it would require that if employees are to be reassigned outside of the county or a contiguous county which they currently work that volunteers are solicited first and then if reassignment is involuntary that seniority be used as the criteria for reassignment. This is a reasonable process and is consistent with the management practices recommended by the Department of Civil Service.

I am asking that you sign this legislation to establish a fair an objective procedure when determining geographic reassignment.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
June 26, 2008