§ 208. Rights accompanying certification or recognition. 1. A public\nemployer shall extend to an employee organization certified or\nrecognized pursuant to this article the following rights:\n (a) to represent the employees in negotiations notwithstanding the\nexistence of an agreement with an employee organization that is no\nlonger certified or recognized, and in the settlement of grievances; and\n (b) to membership dues deduction, upon presentation of dues deduction\nauthorization cards signed by individual employees. A public employer\nshall commence making such deductions as soon as practicable, but in no\ncase later than thirty days after receiving proof of a signed dues\ndeduction authorization card; and such dues shall be transmitted to the\ncertified or recognized employee organization within thirty days of the\ndeduction. A public employer shall accept a signed authorization to\ndeduct from the salary of a public employee an amount for the payment of\nhis or her dues in any format permitted by article three of the state\ntechnology law. The right to such membership dues deduction shall remain\nin full force and effect until:\n (i) an individual employee revokes membership in the employee\norganization in writing in accordance with the terms of the signed\nauthorization; or\n (ii) the individual employee is no longer employed by the public\nemployer, provided that if such employee is, within a period of one\nyear, employed by the same public employer in a position represented by\nthe same employee organization, the right to such dues deduction shall\nbe automatically reinstated.\n (c) Should the individual employee who has signed a dues deduction\nauthorization card either be removed from a public employer's payroll or\notherwise placed on any type of involuntary or voluntary leave of\nabsence, whether paid or unpaid, such public employee's membership in an\nemployee organization shall be continued upon that public employee's\nreturn to the payroll or restoration to active duty from such a leave of\nabsence.\n (d) Unless otherwise specified by a collective bargaining agreement,\nupon the request of the employee organization, not more than quarterly,\nthe employer shall provide the employee organization the name, home\naddress, job title, employing agency or department or other operating\nunit and work location of all employees of a bargaining unit. A failure\nto comply with this paragraph shall be deemed an improper employer\npractice pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section two\nhundred nine-a of this article.\n 2. An employee organization certified or recognized pursuant to this\narticle shall be entitled to unchallenged representation status until\nseven months prior to the expiration of a written agreement between the\npublic employer and said employee organization determining terms and\nconditions of employment. For the purposes of this subdivision, (a) any\nsuch agreement for a term covering other than the fiscal year of the\npublic employer shall be deemed to expire with the fiscal year ending\nimmediately prior to the termination date of such agreement, (b) any\nsuch agreement having a term in excess of three years shall be treated\nas an agreement for a term of three years, provided, however, any such\nagreement between the state and an employee organization representing\nemployees in the executive or judicial branches which commences in the\ncalendar year two thousand twenty-one having a term in excess of three\nyears shall be treated as an agreement for a term certain specified in\nsuch agreement but in no event for a term greater than four years, and\n(c) extensions of any such agreement shall not extend the period of\nunchallenged representation status.\n 3. (a) Notwithstanding provisions of and restrictions of sections two\nhundred two and two hundred nine-a of this article, and section two\nhundred one of the state finance law, every employee organization that\nhas been recognize
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