N.Y. Education Law § 2585: Continuation in office of boards, bureaus, teachers, principals and other employees, et cetera

§ 2585. Continuation in office of boards, bureaus, teachers,

principals and other employees, et cetera. 1. Except as otherwise

provided herein the boards, bureaus, teachers, principals, supervisors,

superintendents, heads of departments, assistants to principals,

examiners, supervisors of lectures, directors and all other officers and

employees of the school systems or of boards of education of the several

cities of the state, lawfully appointed or assigned before June eighth,

nineteen hundred seventeen, shall continue to hold their respective

positions for the term for which they were appointed or until removed as

provided in subdivision five of section twenty-five hundred twenty-three

of this article.

2. If a board of education abolishes an office or position and creates

another office or position for the performance of duties similar to

those performed in the office or position abolished, the person filling

such office or position at the time of its abolishment shall be

appointed to the office or position thus created without reduction in

salary or increment, provided the record of such person has been one of

faithful, competent service in the office or position he has filled.

3. Whenever a board of education abolishes a position under this

chapter, the services of the teacher having the least seniority in the

system within the tenure of the position abolished shall be

discontinued.

4. If an office or position is abolished or if it is consolidated with

another position without creating a new position, the person filling

such position at the time of its abolishment or consolidation shall be

placed upon a preferred eligible list of candidates for appointment to a

vacancy that then exists or that may thereafter occur in an office or

position similar to the one which such person filled without reduction

in salary or increment, provided the record of such person has been one

of faithful, competent service in the office or position he has filled.

The persons on such preferred list shall be reinstated or appointed to

such corresponding or similar positions in the order of their length of

service in the system.

* 5. (a) The use of artificial intelligence systems as defined by

section one hundred three-e of the state technology law shall not affect

(i) the existing rights of employees pursuant to an existing collective

bargaining agreement, or (ii) the existing representational

relationships among employee organizations or the bargaining

relationships between the employer and an employee organization.

(b) The use of such artificial intelligence systems shall not result

in the: (i) discharge, displacement or loss of position, including

partial displacement such as a reduction in the hours of non-overtime

work, wages, or employment benefits, or result in the impairment of

existing collective bargaining agreements; or (ii) transfer of existing

duties and functions currently performed by employees of the school

district to an artificial intelligence system.

(c) The use of such artificial intelligence system shall not alter the

rights or benefits, and privileges, including but not limited to terms

and conditions of employment and civil service status. The collective

bargaining unit membership status of all existing employees of the board

of education shall be preserved and protected.

* NB Repealed July 1, 2028