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BCB Finds ACS Can’t Impose 3-Year Rule For New Attorneys

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 6/15/15

The Board of Collective Bargaining has struck down a three-year job commitment for newly hired attorneys instituted last year by the Administration for Children’s Services.

The employees’ union, the Civil Service Bar Association, alleged that ACS violated collective-bargaining laws and a 2000 Board order when it imposed the length-of-service guarantee for non-managerial attorneys in its Family Court Legal Services division last July. In the decision, the seven-member panel found that such a policy was a “mandatory subject of bargaining.”

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