Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb622%20intr.htm&yr=2009&sesstype=RS&i=622
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(By Senators Yost, Kessler, White, Laird and Edgell)
[Introduced March 17, 2009; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new article, designated §29-6A-1, §29-6A-2, §29-6A-3, §29-6A-4, §29-6A-5, §29-6A-6, §29-6A-7, §29-6A-8, §29-6A-9, §29-6A-10, §29-6A-11, §29-6A-12, §29-6A-13, §29-6A-14, §29-6A-15, §29-6A-16, §29-6A-17, §29-6A-18, §29-6A-19, §29-6A-20, §29-6A-21, §29-6A-22, §29-6A-23, §29-6A-24, §29-6A-25 and §29-6A-26, all relating to promoting orderly and constructive employment relations between the state and its employees; increasing the efficiency of the state; ensuring the health and safety of the citizens of this state; requiring the state to recognize, negotiate and bargain with employee organizations representing state employees and to enter into written agreements evidencing the result of bargaining; and encouraging labor peace through the establishment of standards and procedures which protect the rights of the state, the state employee and the citizens of this state.
(g) "Employee" means, for the purposes of this act, any person employed by the state in an executive department, including agencies and boards, or in an independent agency or department other than supervisors, confidential employees, persons employed by the governing boards of higher education, employees of the State Legislature, employees of the judicial branch and employees responsible for administering this statute.
The Governor shall appoint the three members of the board within sixty days of the effective date of this article. The original terms of office of members begin on July 1, 2009.
The board shall hold at least four meetings in every fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending the following June 30. One meeting, known as the annual meeting, shall be held in July, or as soon thereafter as practicable, in the year 2009 and in July of each subsequent year. Annual meetings, as well as the three additional required meetings in each fiscal year, shall be held on dates and at places as the board may prescribe: In addition to the statutorily required meetings, the board may, upon its own resolution or at the call of the chairperson of the board, meet at other times.
At its first annual meeting in July, or as soon thereafter as practicable, in the year 2009, and annually thereafter, the board shall elect a chairperson and other officers from its membership as the board may deem necessary or desirable. The chairperson shall serve for a one-year term commencing on July 1, following the annual meeting and ending on June 30 the following year.
(4) The board shall give no less than ten days notice of the time and place of the election;
(c) All existing rules adopted by the employer, including civil service and other personnel regulations, which are not contrary to this article or a collective bargaining agreement, shall remain applicable. The duty to bargain collectively shall include an obligation to negotiate over any matter with respect to wages, hours and other conditions of employment, not specifically provided for in any other law or not specifically in violation of the provisions of any law. If any other law pertains, in part, to a matter affecting the wages, hours and other conditions of employment, the other law shall not be construed as limiting the duty to bargain collectively and to enter into collective bargaining agreements containing clauses which either supplement, implement or relate to the effect of provisions in other laws. If there is a conflict between the collective bargaining agreement and any rules, the terms of the agreement shall prevail. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, matters described in article five, chapter five, section five, article two, chapter fifteen, sections ten, twenty-four and twenty-six, article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code shall be substantively subject to bargaining at the request of either party.
(3) The terms of collective agreements negotiated between the parties in the past, or of other previously existing arrangements providing for compensation and fringe benefits, including but not limited to, provisions for salary, insurance and retirement benefits, medical and hospitalization benefits, paid time off and job security; and
(4) Discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because he or she has signed or filed an affidavit, petition or complaint or given any information or testimony under this act, or because he or she has formed, joined or chosen to be represented by any employee organization;
(5) Refuse to bargain collectively in good faith with the exclusive representative as required in this act;
(7) Refuse or fail to comply with any provision of this act; or
(1) Refuse to bargain collectively in good faith with the state employer if it is an exclusive representative, as required in this act;
(2) Refuse to participate in good faith in the mediation and arbitration procedures set forth in sections sixteen and seventeen of this act; or
(4) Take affirmative action, including but not limited to, the reinstatement of employees with pay, as is deemed fair and equitable in accordance with the provisions of this article.
If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
§29-6A-1, §29-6A-2, §29-6A-3, §29-6A-4, §29-6A-5, §29-6A-6, §29-6A-7, §29-6A-8, §29-6A-9, §29-6A-10, §29-6A-11, §29-6A-12, §29-6A-13, §29-6A-14, §29-6A-15, §29-6A-16, §29-6A-17, §29-6A-18, §29-6A-19, §29-6A-20, §29-6A-21, §29-6A-22, §29-6A-23, §29-6A-24, §29-6A-25 and §29-6A-26 are new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.