Ala. Code § 11-49B-20 (1975) Employee Protective Provisions

• Library: Alabama Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Ala. Code § 11-49B-20 (1975)

(a) The rights, benefits, and other employee protective conditions and remedies of Section (c) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1609) , as determined by the Secretary of Labor, shall apply to the operation by the authority of any public transportation service and to any contract or other arrangement for the operation of the service. If the authority acquires an existing transit system, it shall assume and observe all existing labor contracts and pension obligations. All employees of the system except executive and administrative officers, shall be transferred to and appointed as employees of the authority, subject to all rights and benefits of this section. These employees shall be given seniority credit and sick leave, vacation, insurance, and pension credit in accordance with the records or labor agreements from the acquired transit system. The authority shall assume the obligations of any transit system acquired by it with regard to wages, salaries, hours, working conditions, sick leave, health and welfare, and pension or retirement provisions for employees. The authority and the employees shall take the appropriate action necessary to have the pension trust funds, presently under the joint control of the acquired transit system and the participating employees transferred to a trust fund to be established, maintained, and administered jointly by the authority and the participating employees. No employee of any acquired transit system who is transferred t...