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Committee considers one-year delay to Section 5 that would change judiciary supervisors' bargaining status
Summary
Representative Jim Harrison offered an amendment to S.125 that would postpone by one year the effective date of Section 5, which removes supervisory employees from the judiciary’s currently exempt bargaining unit; committee members debated the timing and potential impacts and took an informal straw poll but did not record a formal vote.
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The House General & Housing Committee on May 13 considered an amendment by Representative Jim Harrison to delay the effective date of Section 5 of S.125, which would remove supervisory employees from the judiciary’s currently exempt bargaining unit.
"It's a very simple amendment," Representative Jim Harrison said, describing the change as a one-year delay that would set the effective date to July 1, 2026 while leaving the section in the bill if it is passed.
The nut graf: supporters said the one-year delay would give affected employees and the judiciary additional time to discuss the change; opponents said the delay could put those employees out of phase with other bargaining units…
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