Abolishing featherbedding on holidays — the practice of hiring of more workers than necessary and at enhanced pay — is a sound management policy, not an unfair labor practice, a state appeals court says.
Reversing the Public Employment Relations Commission, the Appellate Division held Thursday that the “standstill provision” of the Employer-Employee Relations Act — which bars work-condition changes during arbitration — does not sanction “the continuation of pointless work procedures designed merely to pay workers for performing make-work tasks, or worse, for just showing up.”
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