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Displaying 13 Finding Aids
Title
- Public Employment Relations Board Conciliation Unit closed interest arbitration case files
Series Number
- 17506
Summary
- The series consists of PERB case files with "A" numbers that document the binding arbitration process for public safety interest contract negotiations that have reached the impasse stage. Typically, an individual file will contain the opinion and award of the arbitration panel and dissents; requests for arbitration; panel list(s) for the selection of arbitrators; and arbitrator report forms and related correspondence.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Conciliation Unit
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Tenured teacher disciplinary case hearing transcripts and exhibits
Series Number
- 15946
Summary
- This series consists of transcripts and accompanying exhibits produced during tenured teacher disciplinary hearings. These case files often include graphic testimony about teacher performance, classroom situations, and education administration (particularly teacher supervision and efforts to identify and remove incompetent teachers). Transcripts provide information about workplace relations and working conditions, and on "social" labor relations in an adversarial context. Exhibits may include lesson plans, observation reports, and audio or videotapes of teachers in the classroom.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Office of School District Employer-Employee Relations
Access Restrictions
- Access to certain records in this series is restricted pursuant to New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) section 87.2(a), relating to records specifically exempted from disclosure by state or federal statute: State Education Law section 2-d (unauthorized release of personally identifiable information); federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 USC section 1232g; and State Civil Rights Law section 50-B (right of privacy for victims of sex offenses). Access to certain records is also restricted pursuant to FOIL sections 87.2(b) (unwarranted invasion of personal privacy) and 87.2(g) (inter- and intra-agency materials which are not statistical or factual tabulations or data, instructions to staff that affect the public, or final agency policy or determinations).
Title
- Reasonable Accommodation Compliance Review Board appeal files
Series Number
- 19830
Summary
- The series consists of files pertaining to employee requests for review, by the Compliance Review Board, of denied requests for "reasonable accommodation." Files include all relevant documentation held by the agency on the employee's disability and request for workplace accommodation (including medical documentation); records documenting the agency's decision to deny the request; comments and drafts; the decision of the Review Board; and copies of the letter transmitting that advisory decision to the agency that denied the request.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Division of Diversity Planning and Management
Access Restrictions
- Medical records are restricted pursuant to the Personal Privacy Protection Law. Use under supervision of archivist.
Title
- State agency affirmative action annual reports
Series Number
- 19824
Summary
- This series consists of affirmative action annual reports submitted to the department. Typical reports are 8-10 pages in length and describe recent and intended future activities in agencies to meet state goals, including hiring actions taken or planned to achieve parity in numbers of protected class members. These narrative reports do not duplicate the types of information found in the division's quarterly workforce diversity reports or in the APPS database from which those reports are prepared.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Bureau of Historic Preservation Field Services
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Acts of reprisal case files
Series Number
- B2727
Summary
- This series consists of complaints and decisions reviewed by the Public Employment Relations Board in the process of investigating allegations of acts of reprisal in local municipalities. Acts of reprisal are in violation of the Public Employees' Fair Employment Act (Civil Service Law Article 14, Section 202), which guarantees public employees "the right to form, join and participate in, or to refrain from forming, joining, or participating in, any employee organization of their own choosing."
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Local municipal law and ordinance case files
Series Number
- B2726
Summary
- This series consists of complaints and decisions viewed by the Public Employment Relations Board to determine whether local municipal laws and ordinances were equivalent to the Public Employees' Fair Employment Act (New York State Civil Service Law, Article 14, Section 212). Cases were abbreviated as S case files. It appears that these case files were no longer compiled after 1995. It is unclear if this type of documentation was incorporated into a different case type after 1995.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State agency affirmative action goals and timetables
Series Number
- 19821
Summary
- The Division of Diversity Planning and Management develops affirmative action goals and timetables and forwards them to state agencies for review, comment, and implementation. The series consists of goals and timetables established by the division for state agencies, defining actions they should take to establish parity for the employment of racial and ethnic minorities, women, disabled persons, and Vietnam-era veterans. The records document the division's work to establish goals and timetables in 1983 and 1988.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Division of Diversity Planning and Management
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Work stoppage investigation files
Series Number
- 17498
Summary
- This series consists of Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) Counsel's Office work stoppage investigation files, documenting the agency's effort to determine if work stoppages constituted strikes. The files includes correspondence and memorandums; affidavits; grievance forms; disciplinary decisions; exhibits; memorandums of findings; and newspaper clippings publicizing the work stoppage.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Counsel's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Index to case files and transcripts
Series Number
- B1572
Summary
- The series consists of a card file index to numbered case files and transcripts of the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) formerly held by the Labor-Management Documentation Center, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. The index is divided into sections within these two categories. Each card shows a box number and an alphanumeric case/transcript code or range of codes. Box numbers are those assigned at Cornell, and do not correspond to State Archives box numbers.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Strike case files
Series Number
- 17502
Summary
- The series consists of legal files with "D" case numbers, created when an employee organization work stoppage, as reported to counsel at the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), is investigated by that office and determined to constitute a strike. Strikes by public employees are illegal under the state Taylor Law, which provides penalties. That law also created PERB to resolve government labor-management disputes.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Counsel's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Public Employment Relations Board Counsel's Office compliance with Board order investigation files
Series Number
- 17500
Summary
- This series consists of legal case files with "U" numbers created when a party to a Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) proceeding makes allegations of non-compliance with a board order. PERB orders derive from representation or improper practice cases. Allegations of non-compliance trigger investigation by PERB Counsel's Office and if warranted, legal proceedings to obtain compliance. Records include correspondence and (occasionally) brief investigative notes, supporting documentation, exhibit material, and copies of hearing officer's decisions.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Counsel's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Governor's Office of Employee Relations Disciplinary Administration Unit American Arbitration Association decisions
Series Number
- 17092
Summary
- This series consists of summary decisions reached by American Arbitration Association arbitrators in all appealed disciplinary cases (until 1986) and for all non-CSEA cases (since 1986). Individual case files usually contain notices of disciplinary action, appeal forms, arguments submitted by the opposing parties, hearing decisions and penalties imposed, if any.
Creator
- New York (State). Governor's Office of Employee Relations. Disciplinary Administration Unit
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Local government provision implementation case files
Series Number
- 17499
Summary
- The series consists of legal files created by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) as it reviews and approves local laws and procedures established by "mini-PERBs" set up by local governments. These files have "I" case numbers, and include the petition application, and correspondence and memorandums relating to the investigation. The recommended board decision prepared by counsel, the final determination of the board, local laws and procedures, and questionnaires filled out by the mini-PERBs may also be included.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Counsel's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.