Category: Legislation

The deadline to introduce new legislation was February 24, 2012.  As far as I can tell, there were only a handful of new bills introduced that affect the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).  The new bills include: AB 1659 by Assembly Member Butler.  This bill would subject employees of the County of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles to PERB’s jurisdiction unless those two entities could demonstrate that they have “independent” employee relations commissions.  The bill considers an employee relations commission to be “independent” if it 1) has a separate budget line item, 2) has sole discretion to spend…

AB 1606 was introduced by Assemblymember Perea on February 7, 2012.  AB 1606 would clarify that mediation is not a prerequisite to fact-finding under the MMBA.  Specifically, AB 1606 would make the following changes: (a)  If the mediator is parties are unable to effect settlement of the controversy within 30 days after his or her the appointment of a mediator, or if the dispute was not submitted to mediation within 30 days after the date that either party provided the other with written notice of a declaration of impasse, the employee organization may request that the parties' differences be submitted…