Bill > S08980

This bill amends the education law to require that contracts for the transportation of school children in school districts located in a city with at least one million inhabitants include provisions for the retention or preference in hiring of school bus workers and for the preservation of their wages, health, welfare, and retirement benefits, and seniority. The bill defines "school bus worker" as an operator, mechanic, dispatcher, or attendant who was employed by a contractor or subcontractor that had a contract with the school district for the transportation of school children and has been furloughed or become unemployed as a result of a loss or reduction of such contract.