SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1314        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 268

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to protecting the rights of custodial and other non teaching employees of school districts..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

1. Section 59B of Chapter 71 is hereby amended by adding the following words at the end of the first paragraph:  “In the case of custodial, maintenance and non-teaching positions, the hiring, promotion and firing of such employees shall be completed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 31 of the general laws provided that said positions are classified as civil service positions. For those positions not covered by civil service, the hiring, promotion and firing of such employees shall be completed in accordance with the provisions of the existing collective bargaining agreement.”