<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear NCASG members:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Organization of New York State Management Confidential
Employees (OMCE) is a voluntary membership association of State employees who
are unable to join a union due to the designation of their positions as
managerial or confidential in nature. 
Our members, NYS employees, are in a broad variety of policy-making management roles or in
administrative positions that provide support to collective bargaining and human
resources functions.  </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Our members are treated differently than union-represented
employees as they are prohibited by law from collective bargaining.  Compensation and benefits therefore frequently
lag those obtained by others in union-represented positions (including those employees
in identical titles).  To remedy this, we
are considering drafting legislation that links the compensation increases of managerial
and confidential employees to the compensation increases of union-represented employees.  While we are not seeking EQUAL salaries, but we
are seeking EQUAL increases in base salaries.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please share with us any law, regulation, policy or
memorandum in your state that specifically links pay or pay increases for managerial
and/or confidential employees to those of unionized (or non-unionized) rank and
file employees.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thank you very much for your assistance.  I benefited greatly from your assistance when
I served in New York State’s Department of Civil Service just a few short years
ago.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best regards,</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">George Velesko</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Executive Director</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">NYS OMCE</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">518-256-7731</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><div><img src="cid:ii_khqgm0mv0" alt="image.png" width="158" height="47"><br></div></div></div>