WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 343

CHAPTER 343
(House Bill 1002)

AN ACT concerning

State Personnel - Department of Transportation Employees - Continuation of Right to

Collective Bargaining

FOR the purpose of clarifying the rights of certain employees hired in the Department of
Transportation to join employee organizations and to be included in a collective
bargaining unit.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 2-103.4(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1977 Volume and 1992 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

2-103.4.

(c) (1) Any human resources management system established under this section
shall provide that classified merit system personnel employed immediately prior to the
date of its establishment shall be allowed to remain in the previous personnel system until
June 30, 1996.

(2)      Any person who as of June 30, 1996 is employed by the Department in a
position authorized by the State budget, but not included under a collective bargaining
agreement, shall be required to transfer into the human resources management system of
the Department without loss of accumulated leave or retirement status.

(3)      Any employee hired after the establishment of the new system as a
permanent employee of the Department shall be hired under the provisions of the new
human resources management system.

(4)      Nothing in this Act shall affect:

(I)       [the] THE collective bargaining rights of members of the transit
workers union;

(II)     THE RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES HIRED AT ANY TIME TO JOIN AN
EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION; OR

(III)   THE RIGHTS OF MASS TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION EMPLOYEES
HIRED AT ANY TIME ELIGIBLE UNDER § 7-601 OF THIS ARTICLE TO BE INCLUDED IN
A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNIT.

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