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Outside Section 179


Assistant Court Clerks Reduction in Force

SECTION 179.   Said section 9 of said chapter 211B, as so appearing, is hereby further amended in the third paragraph by striking clause (iv) and inserting in place thereof the following clause:
          (iv) (a) the responsibility consistent with section 8 of chapter 211B to provide personnel management, including promulgation of job classifications, establishment of system wide personnel policies and hiring practices and the authority to act as collective bargaining agent on behalf of the trial court.
          (b) Notwithstanding said section 8 of chapter 211B, section 10 or section 53 of chapter 218, or any other general or special law to the contrary, whenever there is a reduction in force in any department of the trial court and the number of assistant clerks employed in the department exceeds the number of justices employed in the same department, no employee of such department may be terminated, except for cause, because of a reduction in force until such time as the number of assistant clerks in the department is equal to or less than the number of justices employed in the same department.