§ 210. Prohibition of strikes. 1. No public employee or employee\norganization shall engage in a strike, and no public employee or\nemployee organization shall cause, instigate, encourage, or condone a\nstrike.\n 2. Violations and penalties; presumption; prohibition against consent\nto strike; determination; notice; probation; payroll deductions;\nobjections; and restoration. (a) Violations and penalties. A public\nemployee shall violate this subdivision by engaging in a strike or\nviolating paragraph (c) of this subdivision and shall be liable as\nprovided in this subdivision pursuant to the procedures contained\nherein. In addition, any public employee who violates subdivision one of\nthis section may be subject to removal or other disciplinary action\nprovided by law for misconduct.\n (b) Presumption. For purposes of this subdivision an employee who is\nabsent from work without permission, or who abstains wholly or in part\nfrom the full performance of his duties in his normal manner without\npermission, on the date or dates when a strike occurs, shall be presumed\nto have engaged in such strike on such date or dates.\n (c) Prohibition against consent to strike. No person exercising on\nbehalf of any public employer any authority, supervision or direction\nover any public employee shall have the power to authorize, approve,\ncondone or consent to a strike, or the engaging in a strike, by one or\nmore public employees, and such person shall not authorize, approve,\ncondone or consent to such strike or engagement.\n (d) Determination. In the event that it appears that a violation of\nthis subdivision may have occurred, the chief executive officer of the\ngovernment involved shall, on the basis of such investigation and\naffidavits as he may deem appropriate, determine whether or not such\nviolation has occurred and the date or dates of such violation. If the\nchief executive officer determines that such violation has occurred, he\nshall further determine, on the basis of such further investigation and\naffidavits as he may deem appropriate, the names of employees who\ncommitted such violation and the date or dates thereof. Such\ndetermination shall not be deemed to be final until the completion of\nthe procedures provided for in this subdivision.\n (e) Notice. The chief executive officer shall forthwith notify each\nemployee that he has been found to have committed such violation, the\ndate or dates thereof and of his right to object to such determination\npursuant to paragraph (g) of this subdivision; he shall also notify the\nchief fiscal officer of the names of all such employees and of the total\nnumber of days, or part thereof, on which it has been determined that\nsuch violation occurred. Notice to each employee shall be by personal\nservice or by certified mail to his last address filed by him with his\nemployer.\n (f) Payroll deductions. Not earlier than thirty nor later than ninety\ndays following the date of such determination, the chief fiscal officer\nof the government involved shall deduct from the compensation of each\nsuch public employee an amount equal to twice his daily rate of pay for\neach day or part thereof that it was determined that he had violated\nthis subdivision; such rate of pay to be computed as of the time of such\nviolation. In computing such deduction, credit shall be allowed for\namounts already withheld from such employee's compensation on account of\nhis absence from work or other withholding of services on such day or\ndays. In computing the aforesaid thirty to ninety day period of time\nfollowing the determination of a violation pursuant to subdivision (d)\nof paragraph two of this section and where the employee's annual\ncompensation is paid over a period of time which is less than fifty-two\nweeks, that period of time between the last day of the last payroll\nperiod of the employment term in which the violation occurred and the\nfirst day of the first payroll period of the next su
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