Category: PERB News

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Cases Overturned by PERB

One of the difficulties of PERB practice is doing legal research.  It's easy enough finding cases on PERB's website or from commercial legal research vendors like Westlaw.  But how do you know if a particular point of law in a decision is still good law?  Unlike with court decisions, there is no way to "shepardize" a PERB case to find out if it's been overturned.  So you really have to be aware of the status of PERB jurisprudence. This is all the more difficult today because the current Board has been particularly active in overturning prior cases.  Did you know that the current Board has overturned, at…

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Chair Martinez Reappointed by Governor

On January 2, 2014, the Governor announced the reappointment of Anita Martinez as a Member and Chair of the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).  Chair Martinez was reappointed to a 5-year term that expires on December 31, 2018. So here is the current composition of PERB with the terms of the various Members: Chair Anita Martinez (Term expires 12/31/18) Member Priscilla Winslow (Term expires 12/31/17) [Vacant Member seat] (Term expires 12/31/16) Member Eugene Huguenin (Term expires 12/31/15) Member Eric Banks (Term expires 12/31/14)

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PERB Changes for 2014

The 2012-13 legislative session began with the introduction of several bills affecting the various statutes administered by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).  However, by the end of the first year of the two-year session, only two bills affecting PERB passed the Legislature and were signed by the Governor.  The two bills are: AB 537 (Bonta) Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: impasse procedures AB 1137 (Gray) Public employee organizations: members: paid leave of absence Both these bills affect only the Meyers Milias Brown Act (MMBA).  I've written a document that summaries the changes brought by these two bills.  You can obtain a copy by…

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PERB Puts Board Docket Online

The Board recently placed its docket online.  (Click here)  The docket is the list of cases that are fully briefed awaiting a decision from the Board.  By placing its docket online, the Board will likely come under criticism for the length of time some cases have been pending a decision.  Past Boards have avoided such criticism by simply not releasing the docket.  So while some scrutiny of the Board may be appropriate, this Board should be applauded for its willingness to be transparent and to subject itself to such public scrutiny.

Here what is the Board’s docket revealed as of 11/19/13 [Note: Since I wrote this post an updated docket has been posted; so these numbers may be a little off]:

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