2002 Minnesota Statutes

     179A.23 Limitation on contracting-out of services 
  provided by members of a state of Minnesota or University of 
  Minnesota bargaining unit. 

    Any contract entered into after March 23, 1982, by the 
 state of Minnesota or the University of Minnesota involving 
 services, any part of which, in the absence of the contract, 
 would be performed by members of a unit provided in sections 
 179A.10 and 179A.11, shall be subject to section 16C.06 and 
 shall provide for the preferential employment by a party of 
 members of that unit whose employment with the state of 
 Minnesota or the University of Minnesota is terminated as a 
 result of that contract.  

    Contracts entered into by the state of Minnesota for the 
 purpose of providing court reporter services or transcription of 
 the record of a hearing which was recorded by means of an audio 
 magnetic recording device shall be subject to section 16C.08 and 
 the preferential employment provisions enumerated in this 
 section.  Any court reporter seeking a contract pursuant to the 
 preferential employment provisions of this section shall be 
 given preference when the services are needed only if that court 
 reporter's charges for the services requested are no greater 
 than the average of the charges made for the identical services 
 by other court reporters in the same locality who are also under 
 contract with the state for those services.  

    HIST: 1984 c 462 s 24; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1998 c 386 art 2 
 s 66