The Union claimed that the City and ACS violated NYCCBL §§ 12-306(a)(4) and 12-307(a) when ACS unilaterally implemented staffing and scheduling changes affecting the Youth Development Specialist employees assigned to the Family Court detention rooms. The City argued that the scheduling and staffing changes were a non-mandatory subject of bargaining and that the petition should be dismissed because the Union made no specific factual allegations of a practical impact. The Board found that the changes did not concern a mandatory subject of bargaining and that the petition did not allege facts sufficient to warrant a hearing on practical impact and dismissed the petition in its entirety.

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