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Councilmen Rap Governor Over Not Restoring School-Bus EPP

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 4/8/19

Time is of the essence to restore the Employee Protection Provision for school bus drivers and attendants, according to City Council Member Mark Treyger.

He, along with Councilmen I. Daneek Miller and Daniel Dromm, introduced legislation to urge state legislators to reinstate the 1979 provision that guaranteed school bus workers’ seniority rights and compensation levels when a route was taken over by a new company. But state legislators failed to include any mandates in the Fiscal Year 2020 budget re-establishing the law, which was eliminated during the Bloomberg administration in late 2012.

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