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Senate Finance Committee advances PERB chair nomination after year of cuts to backlog
Summary
The New York State Senate Finance Committee voted to advance the nomination of Timothy Connick to continue as chair of the Public Employment Relations Board after his testimony about reducing case backlogs, implementing rules tied to the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act and responding to recent large-scale labor actions.
Timothy Connick, the chair of the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, told the Senate Finance Committee on June 10 that the board has reduced a backlog of late administrative-law-judge decisions and increased the number of board rulings since he took the chair a year ago, and the committee voted to move his nomination to the full Senate.
Connick told members he has focused on clearing delayed administrative-law-judge (ALJ) decisions and improving the board’s processes. “We could sometimes wait two or three years to get a decision,” he said, and described a drop in ALJ decisions that had not been issued within 90 days of closing briefs from 42 last summer to 20 as of May 27 — a 52% reduction, he said. He also said the board issued 51 decisions in the most recent year, compared with 21 decisions in calendar year 2023,…
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