Minnesota Session Laws - 1996, Regular Session

  
    
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                            CHAPTER 276-H.F.No. 2652 
                  An act relating to local government; granting the city 
                  of Minneapolis authority to negotiate certain trade 
                  and craft contracts for stagehands; amending Laws 
                  1988, chapter 471, section 1, subdivisions 1, as 
                  amended, and 2, as amended; and section 2, as amended.
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Laws 1988, chapter 471, section 1, subdivision 
        1, as amended by Laws 1994, chapter 450, section 1, is amended 
        to read: 
           Subdivision 1.  [AGREEMENT AUTHORIZED.] The city of 
        Minneapolis special school district No. 1, Minneapolis and the 
        municipal building commission, are each authorized to negotiate 
        agreements concerning the hiring and terms and conditions of 
        employment for skilled trade and craft workers and apprentices 
        with local labor organizations representing skilled building and 
        construction trades and, electrical workers and apprentices, and 
        stagehands or production technicians and apprentices. 
           Sec. 2.  Laws 1988, chapter 471, section 1, subdivision 2, 
        as amended by Laws 1994, chapter 450, section 1, is amended to 
        read:  
           Subd. 2.  [SPECIFIC AGREEMENT NEGOTIATING SUBJECTS.] The 
        employers identified in subdivision 1 may negotiate about and 
        the agreements may provide for:  (1) the use by the employers 
        identified in subdivision 1 of the labor organizations hiring 
        hall services in a manner and on terms agreeable to the parties; 
        and (2) the employers identified in subdivision 1 to make 
        pension contributions and other fringe benefit contributions 
        to building such trades union's employee benefit funds or 
        accounts on the basis of hours worked by an employee and in 
        accordance with the provisions of the prevailing labor agreement 
        for the applicable building trades union. 
           Sec. 3.  Laws 1988, chapter 471, section 2, as amended by 
        Laws 1994, chapter 450, section 2, is amended to read: 
           Sec. 2.  [CURRENT EMPLOYEES.] 
           Unless agreed to by the person, section 1 does not apply to:
           (1) persons employed by the city of Minneapolis on April 6, 
        1988, or, as to the other employers identified in section 1, as 
        skilled trade and craft workers and electrical workers and 
        apprentices; 
           (2) persons employed by special school district No. 1, 
        Minneapolis and the municipal building commission, on April 15, 
        1994, as skilled trade and craft workers and electrical workers 
        and apprentices; and 
           (3) persons employed by the city of Minneapolis as 
        stagehands or production technicians on the effective date of 
        this act or such other date as agreed to by the parties.  
           Unless the agreement specifically provides, an agreement 
        authorized under section 1 shall not affect any vested or 
        accumulated rights, liabilities, or terms and conditions of 
        employment of those current employees. 
           Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Sections 1 to 3 are effective the day following final 
        enactment, without the local approval described in Minnesota 
        Statutes, section 645.021. 
           Presented to the governor February 20, 1996 
           Signed by the governor February 21, 1996, 10:20 a.m.