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﻿ Ch. 179A MN Statutes
179A.02 CITATION.
179A.05 [Repealed, 1992 c 582 s 26]
179A.08 POLICY CONSULTANTS.
179A.09 UNIT DETERMINATION.
179A.103 GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR COURT EMPLOYEES.
179A.104 BOARD OF PUBLIC DEFENSE.
179A.15 MEDIATION.
179A.17 NEW EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVES.
179A.21 GRIEVANCE ARBITRATION.
179A.22 STATE AND ITS EMPLOYEES; NEGOTIATIONS.
179A.225 COURT EMPLOYEES; NEGOTIATIONS.
179A.226 BOARD OF PUBLIC DEFENSE EMPLOYEES; NEGOTIATIONS.
179A.23 LIMITATION ON CONTRACTING-OUT OF SERVICES PROVIDED BY MEMBERS OF A STATE OF MINNESOTA OR UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BARGAINING UNIT.
179A.24 APPLICATION OF SECTIONS 185.07 TO 185.19.
179A.25 INDEPENDENT REVIEW.
179A.30 REGIONAL TREATMENT CENTER, NURSING HOME, AND COMMUNITY-BASED FACILITY EMPLOYEES.
179A.40 HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, INC.
Sections 179A.01 to 179A.25 shall be known as the Public Employment Labor Relations Act.
1984 c 462 s 3
Decisions of the commissioner relating to supervisory, confidential, essential, and professional employees, appropriateness of a unit, or fair share fee challenges may be reviewed on certiorari by the Court of Appeals. A petition for a writ of certiorari must be filed and served on the other party or parties and the commissioner within 30 days from the date of the mailing of the commissioner's decision. The petition must be served on the other party or parties at the party's or parties' last known address.
1992 c 582 s 7
Subdivision 1.Professional employees.
The legislature recognizes that professional employees possess knowledge, expertise, and dedication which is helpful and necessary to the operation and quality of public services and which may assist public employers in developing their policies. It is, therefore, the policy of this state to encourage close cooperation between public employers and professional employees by providing for discussions and the mutual exchange of ideas regarding all matters that are not terms and conditions of employment.
Subd. 2.Meet and confer.
The professional employees shall select a representative to meet and confer with a representative or committee of the public employer on matters not specified under section 179A.03, subdivision 19, relating to the services being provided to the public. The public employer shall provide the facilities and set the time for these conferences to take place. The parties shall meet at least once every four months.
1984 c 462 s 9
The commissioner shall not designate an appropriate unit which includes essential employees with other employees.
Subd. 3.Division of units.
If a designated appropriate unit contains both peace officers subject to licensure under sections 626.84 to 626.863 and essential employees who are not peace officers, the commissioner, at the request of a majority of either the peace officers or the other essential employees within the unit, shall divide the unit into two separate appropriate units, one for the peace officers and one for the other essential employees.
1984 c 462 s 10; 1987 c 186 s 15; 1993 c 136 s 2; 1997 c 7 art 1 s 84
Contracts for the period commencing July 1 of the year in which the state assumes the cost of court administration in the judicial district for the judicial district court employees must be negotiated with the state court administrator. Negotiations for those contracts may begin any time after July 1 of the year before the state assumes the cost, and may be initiated by either party notifying the other of the desire to begin the negotiating process. Negotiations are subject to this chapter.
Subd. 2.Date of employment.
The date of first employment by the state court system is the date on which services were first performed by the employee for the employer from which the employee is being transferred.
Subd. 3.Probationary periods.
Except as otherwise provided in a successor contract, probationary periods are not affected by the transfer of employees to the state court system.
Subd. 4.Wage protection.
Court employees in judicial districts coming under section 480.181, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), may not have a decrease in wages as a result of their transfer to state employment. Wage scales negotiated in a judicial district contract are not to be applied to a court employee of a judicial district who was a court employee of a county within the judicial district at the time the judicial district came under section 480.181, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), until the wage for the employee under the scale is equal to or greater than the wage the employee was receiving on the date the judicial district came under section 480.181, subdivision 1, paragraph (b).
1999 c 216 art 7 s 11; 1Sp2001 c 5 art 5 s 4
Subdivision 1.Board of Public Defense employee units.
The state Board of Public Defense shall meet and negotiate with the exclusive representative of each of the statewide units specified in this section. The units provided in this section are the only appropriate statewide units for state employees of the board. Employees of the state Board of Public Defense, unless otherwise excluded, are included within the units which include the classifications to which they are assigned for purposes of compensation. The following are the appropriate statewide units of state employees of the board:
(1) Assistant District and Assistant State Public Defender Unit; and
(2) Clerical and Support Staff Unit.
Each unit consists of the classifications or positions assigned to it in the schedule of job classifications and positions maintained by the state Board of Public Defense.
The following employees are excluded from the appropriate statewide units under subdivision 1:
(1) the positions of state public defender, deputy state public defender, and chief district public defender;
(2) the positions of managing attorney and managing legal secretary in judicial district public defender offices and in the state Public Defender's Office;
(3) positions of all employees in the administrative services office of the state Board of Public Defense;
(4) positions of all part-time and temporary employees as defined under section 179A.03, subdivision 14, clauses (e) and (f).
1999 c 216 art 7 s 12
The practices specified in this section are unfair labor practices. Any employee, employer, employee or employer organization, exclusive representative, or any other person or organization aggrieved by an unfair labor practice as defined in this section may bring an action for injunctive relief and for damages caused by the unfair labor practice in the district court of the county in which the practice is alleged to have occurred. A copy of any complaint alleging an unfair labor practice must be filed with the commissioner at the time it is brought in district court. The party bringing an unfair labor practice action in district court shall also transmit to the commissioner any orders or judgments of the court within ten days of the order or judgment.
(a) force or require any public employer to cease dealing or doing business with any other person;
(b) force or require a public employer to recognize for representation purposes an employee organization not certified by the commissioner;
(c) refuse to handle goods or perform services; or
(d) prevent an employee from providing services to the employer;
(15) violating or refusing to comply with any lawful order or decision issued by the commissioner.
1984 c 462 s 14; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 186 s 15; 1989 c 255 s 5; 1991 c 239 s 2; 1992 c 582 s 11,12
Once notice has been given under section 179A.14, the employer or the exclusive representative may petition the commissioner for mediation services.
A petition by an employer shall be signed by the employer or an authorized officer or agent. A petition by an exclusive representative shall be signed by its authorized officer. All petitions shall be served on the commissioner in writing. The petition shall state briefly the nature of the disagreement of the parties. Upon receipt of a petition and upon concluding that mediation would be useful, the commissioner shall fix a time and place for a conference with the parties to negotiate the issues not agreed upon, and shall then take the most expedient steps to bring about a settlement, including assisting in negotiating and drafting an agreement.
If the commissioner determines that mediation would be useful in resolving a dispute, the commissioner may mediate the dispute even if neither party has filed a petition for mediation. In these cases, the commissioner shall proceed as if a petition had been filed.
The commissioner shall not furnish mediation services to any employee or employee representative who is not certified as an exclusive representative.
All parties shall respond to the summons of the commissioner for conferences and shall continue in conference until excused by the commissioner.
1984 c 462 s 16; 1985 c 157 s 4; 1987 c 186 s 15; 1Sp2001 c 10 art 2 s 61
Subdivision 1.For teachers.
If a new or different exclusive representative of teachers employed by a local school district is certified by the commissioner at any time other than the period between 120 days before the termination date of a contract and the termination date of the contract, or if on July 1 of any odd-numbered year a representation proceeding involving the employer and the employer's teachers is before the commissioner, section 179A.18, subdivision 2, clause (1), shall apply. In those cases, however, the employer and the exclusive representative of the teachers shall execute a written contract or memorandum of contract no later than 60 days after a certification by the commissioner of a new or different exclusive representative or the resolution by the commissioner of a representation proceeding. Either party may petition the commissioner for assistance in reaching an agreement. If the employer and the exclusive representative of the teachers fail to execute a contract by 60 days after the certification of a new or different exclusive representative or the resolution by the commissioner of a representation proceeding, they shall be conclusively presumed to be at an impasse after having participated in mediation as specified in section 179A.18, subdivision 2, clause (1)(ii).
Subd. 2.Nonteachers.
If a new or different exclusive representative of employees other than teachers employed by a local school district is certified by the commissioner, or if on the expiration date of an existing contract a representation proceeding is before the commissioner, section 179A.18, subdivision 1, clause (1), shall apply. In those cases, however, the employer and the exclusive representative of the employees shall execute a written contract or memorandum of contract no later than 45 days after a certification by the commissioner of a new or different exclusive representative or the resolution by the commissioner of a representation proceeding. Either party may petition the commissioner for assistance in reaching an agreement. If the employer and the exclusive representative fail to execute a contract by 45 days after the certification of a new or different exclusive representative or the resolution by the commissioner of a representation proceeding, they shall be conclusively presumed to be at an impasse after having participated for a period of no less than 45 days in mediation sessions.
1984 c 462 s 18; 1985 c 157 s 6; 1987 c 186 s 15; 1992 c 582 s 19
(ii) the exclusive representative and the employer have participated in mediation over a period of at least 45 days, provided that the mediation period established by section 179A.17, subdivision 2, governs negotiations under that section, and provided that for the purposes of this subclause the mediation period commences on the day following receipt by the commissioner of a request for mediation; or
(ii) the exclusive representative and the employer have participated in mediation over a period of at least 30 days. For the purposes of this subclause the mediation period commences on the day that a mediator designated by the commissioner first attends a conference with the parties to negotiate the issues not agreed upon; and
For purposes of this section, "grievance" means a dispute or disagreement as to the interpretation or application of any term or terms of any contract required by section 179A.20.
If the parties to a contract cannot agree upon an arbitrator or panel of arbitrators as provided by the contract grievance procedures or the procedures established by the commissioner, the parties shall alternately strike names from a list of arbitrators selected by the commissioner until only one name remains. This arbitrator shall decide the grievance and the decision is binding upon the parties. The parties shall share equally the costs and fees of the arbitrator.
Subd. 3.Limits.
Arbitration decisions authorized or required by a grievance procedure are subject to the limitations contained in section 179A.16, subdivision 5. The arbitrator shall send the commissioner a copy of each grievance arbitration decision and any written explanation. If any issues submitted to arbitration are settled voluntarily before the arbitrator issues a decision, the arbitrator shall report the settlement to the commissioner.
1984 c 462 s 22; 1987 c 186 s 15; 1992 c 582 s 22,23
Subdivision 1.Appointing authority.
For purposes of this section the term "appointing authority" has the meaning given it by section 43A.02, subdivision 5.
The employer of state executive branch employees shall be, for purposes of sections 179A.01 to 179A.25, the commissioner of management and budget or the commissioner's representative.
In all negotiations between the executive branch of the state and exclusive representatives, the state executive branch shall be represented by the commissioner of management and budget or the commissioner's representative. The attorney general, and each appointing authority shall cooperate with the commissioner of management and budget in conducting negotiations and shall make available any personnel and other resources necessary to enable the commissioner to conduct effective negotiations.
The commissioner of management and budget is authorized to enter into agreements with exclusive representatives. The negotiated agreements and arbitration decision must be submitted to the legislature to be accepted or rejected in accordance with this section and section 3.855.
1984 c 462 s 23; 1986 c 444; 1992 c 582 s 24; 1994 c 560 art 2 s 20; 1999 c 216 art 7 s 14,15; 2008 c 204 s 42; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
Subdivision 1.Employer.
The employer of court employees is, for purposes of sections 179A.01 to 179A.25, the state court administrator or designated representative.
In all negotiations between the state court system and exclusive representatives of court employees, the state court system must be represented by the state court administrator or designated representative. All judges and managerial, confidential, and supervisory personnel of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the judicial districts that are under section 480.181, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), shall cooperate with the designated representative of the state court administrator in conducting negotiations and shall make available any personnel and other resources necessary to enable the representative of the state court administrator to conduct effective negotiations.
The state court administrator is authorized to enter into agreements with exclusive representatives.
1999 c 216 art 7 s 16
In all negotiations between the state Board of Public Defense and exclusive representatives, the board must be represented by the chief administrator of the board or the chief administrator's designee. Each appointing authority shall cooperate with the chief administrator in conducting negotiations and shall make available any personnel and other resources necessary to enable the chief administrator to conduct effective negotiations. For purposes of this subdivision, "appointing authority" means the state public defender, the deputy state public defender, or the chief public defender of the judicial district, as appropriate.
The state Board of Public Defense is authorized to enter into agreements with exclusive representatives.
1999 c 216 art 7 s 17
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.
1984 c 462 s 24; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1998 c 386 art 2 s 66
Sections 185.07 to 185.19, apply to all public employees, including those specifically excepted from the definition of public employee in section 179A.03, subdivision 14, except as sections 185.07 to 185.19 are inconsistent with section 179A.13.
1984 c 462 s 25
1984 c 462 s 26; 1986 c 444; 1992 c 582 s 25
Subdivision 1.Exclusive representative.
The exclusive representative of employees may meet and negotiate with the commissioner of management and budget, in consultation with the commissioner of human services, concerning possible changes in hours or work schedules that could produce cost reductions in the regional treatment centers.
The commissioner of management and budget shall meet and negotiate in accordance with this chapter with the appropriate exclusive representative of the regional treatment center employees concerning the terms and conditions of employment that result from state-operated, community-based residential programs established under section 252.50.
1988 c 689 art 2 s 62; 2008 c 204 s 42; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
The following are the appropriate employee units of the Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. All units shall exclude supervisors, managerial employees, and confidential employees. No additional units of Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc., shall be eligible to be certified for the purpose of meeting and negotiating with an exclusive representative. The units include all:
(3) professionals except for registered nurses and physicians;
(4) technical and paraprofessional employees;
(5) carpenters, electricians, painters, and plumbers;
(6) health general service employees;
(7) interpreters;
(8) emergency medical technicians/emergency medical dispatchers (EMT/EMD), and paramedics;
(9) bioelectronics specialists, bioelectronics technicians, and electronics technicians;
(10) skilled maintenance employees; and
(11) clerical employees.
Subd. 2.Nonconforming units.
Preexisting Hennepin County Medical Center bargaining units covered by existing labor agreements on June 3, 2005, that do not conform to one of the 11 units described in subdivision 1 shall continue to be appropriate. If an employee representative seeks to represent employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming unit, then all of the employees who are residual to that unit shall be eligible to vote in an election conducted by the commissioner. An election shall be held when an employee organization or group of employees files a petition for an election and the petition is supported by a showing of interest from 30 percent or more of the employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming unit. The employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming unit shall be included within the existing nonconforming unit if a majority of the eligible employees who vote cast their ballots in favor of representation during an election conducted by the commissioner. Nothing shall preclude an exclusive representative and Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc., or prior to the formation of the corporation Hennepin County, from agreeing to an election conducted by the commissioner or other appropriate procedure by which less than all of the employees who are residual to an existing nonconforming unit may be added to the unit.
2005 c 125 art 1 s 29; art 2 s 5,10; 1Sp2005 c 7 s 34