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CA Govt Code § 3543.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 4 - Rights, Obligations, Prohibitions, and Unfair Practices|Section 3543.8.

3543.8.  (a) Any employee organization shall have standing to sue in any action or proceeding heretofore or hereafter instituted by it as representative and on behalf of one or more of its members.(b) (1) At any time not less than 10 days before commencement of a hearing to resolve a dispute alleging that the employer failed to provide wages, benefits, or working conditions required by state law, an employee organization may serve an offer in writing upon the employer to settle the dispute for a specified amount or other consideration such as a change in employer policy. The written offer shall include a statement of the offer amount or other consideration, the terms and conditions by which that amount or other consideration shall be tendered to the employee, and a provision that allows the employer to indicate acceptance of the offer by signing a statement that the offer is accepted. An acceptance of the offer, whether made on the document containing the offer or on a separate document of acceptance, shall be in writing and shall be signed by counsel for the employer, or, if not represented by counsel, by the employer.(2) If the offer is accepted, receipt of the specified amount or other consideration shall constitute a full satisfaction of the claim.(3) If the offer is not accepted before the hearing or within 30 days after it is made, whichever occurs first, it shall be deemed withdrawn and cannot be given in evidence in the action.(4) For purposes of this subdivision, a hearing shall be deemed to be actually commenced at the beginning of the oral argument or opening statement of the plaintiff or counsel, or, if there is no opening statement, at the time of the administering of the oath or affirmation to the first witness, or the introduction of any evidence.(5) (A) If an offer made by an employee organization is not accepted and the employer fails to obtain a more favorable judgment or award from the action or proceeding, the employer shall pay the reasonable postoffer attorney’s fees and expenses of the employee organization.(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply if the adjudicator to the action or proceeding finds that the employer has raised substantial and credible issues involving complex or significant questions of law or fact relative to the employee’s claim or claims.(6) This subdivision does not apply to unfair practice or arbitration proceedings under this chapter.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 812, Sec. 1. (SB 550) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Govt Code § 3544 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 3544.

3544.  (a) An employee organization may become the exclusive representative for the employees of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and negotiating by filing a request with a public school employer alleging that a majority of the employees in an appropriate unit wish to be represented by such organization and asking the public school employer to recognize it as the exclusive representative. The request shall describe the grouping of jobs or positions which constitute the unit claimed to be appropriate and shall be based upon majority support on the basis of current dues deduction authorizations or other evidence such as notarized membership lists, or membership cards, or petitions designating the organization as the exclusive representative of the employees. Notice of any such request shall immediately be posted conspicuously on all employee bulletin boards in each facility of the public school employer in which members of the unit claimed to be appropriate are employed.(b) The employee organization shall submit proof of majority support to the board. The information submitted to the board shall remain confidential and not be disclosed by the board. The board shall obtain from the employer the information necessary for it to carry out its responsibilities pursuant to this section and shall report to the employee organization and the public school employer as to whether the proof of majority support is adequate.(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1084.)
CA Govt Code § 3544.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 3544.1.

3544.1.  The public school employer shall grant a request for recognition filed pursuant to Section 3544, unless any of the following apply:(a) The public school employer doubts the appropriateness of a unit.(b) Another employee organization either files with the public school employer a challenge to the appropriateness of the unit or submits a competing claim of representation within 15 workdays of the posting of notice of the written request. The claim shall be evidenced by current dues deductions authorizations or other evidence such as notarized membership lists, or membership cards, or petitions signed by employees in the unit indicating their desire to be represented by the organization. The evidence shall be submitted to the board, and shall remain confidential and not be disclosed by the board. The board shall obtain from the employer the information necessary for it to carry out its responsibilities pursuant to this section and shall report to the employee organizations seeking recognition and to the public school employer as to the adequacy of the evidence. If the claim is evidenced by the support of at least 30 percent of the members of an appropriate unit, a question of representation exists and the board shall conduct a representation election pursuant to Section 3544.7, unless subdivision (c) or (d) of this section applies.(c) There is currently in effect a lawful written agreement negotiated by the public school employer and another employee organization covering any employees included in the unit described in the request for recognition, unless the request for recognition is filed less than 120 days, but more than 90 days, prior to the expiration date of the agreement.(d) The public school employer has, within the previous 12 months, lawfully recognized another employee organization as the exclusive representative of any employees included in the unit described in the request for recognition.(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 190, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Govt Code § 3544.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 3544.3.

3544.3.  If, by January 1 of any school year, no employee organization has made a claim of majority support in an appropriate unit pursuant to Section 3544, a majority of employees of an appropriate unit may submit to a public school employer a petition signed by at least a majority of the employees in the appropriate unit requesting a representation election. An employee may sign such a petition though not a member of any employee organization.Upon the filing of such a petition, the public school employer shall immediately post a notice of such request upon all employee bulletin boards at each school or other facility in which members of the unit claimed to be appropriate are employed.Any employee organization shall have the right to appear on the ballot if, within 15 workdays after the posting of such notice, it makes the showing of interest required by subdivision (b) of Section 3544.1.Immediately upon expiration of the 15-workday period following the posting of the notice, the public school employer shall transmit to the board the petition and the names of all employee organizations that have the right to appear on the ballot.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 961.)
CA Govt Code § 3544.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 3544.5.

3544.5.  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether employees have selected or wish to select an exclusive representative or to determine the appropriateness of a unit, by:(a) A public school employer alleging that it doubts the appropriateness of the claimed unit; or(b) An employee organization alleging that it has filed a request for recognition as an exclusive representative with a public school employer and that the request has been denied or has not been acted upon within 30 days after the filing of the request; or(c) An employee organization alleging that it has filed a competing claim of representation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 3544.1; or(d) An employee organization alleging that the employees in an appropriate unit no longer desire a particular employee organization as their exclusive representative, provided that such petition is supported by evidence of support such as notarized membership lists, cards, or petitions from 30 percent of the employees in the negotiating unit indicating support for another organization or lack of support for the incumbent exclusive representative. Such evidence of support shall be submitted to the board, and shall remain confidential and not be disclosed by the board. The board shall obtain from the employer the information necessary for it to carry out its responsibilities pursuant to this section and shall report to the employee organizations seeking recognition and to the public school employer as to the adequacy of the evidence of support.(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 194.)
CA Govt Code § 3544.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 3544.7.

3544.7.  (a) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 3544.3 or 3544.5, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations or hold any hearings it deems necessary in order to decide the questions raised by the petition. The determination of the board may be based upon the evidence adduced in the inquiries, investigations, or hearing. However, if the board finds on the basis of the evidence that a question of representation exists, or a question of representation exists pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 3544.1, it shall order that an election be conducted by secret ballot and it shall certify the results of the election on the basis of which ballot choice received a majority of the valid votes cast. There shall be printed on each ballot the statement: “no representation.” No voter shall record more than one choice on his or her ballot. Any ballot upon which there is recorded more than one choice shall be void and shall not be counted for any purpose. If at any election no choice on the ballot receives a majority of the votes cast, a runoff election shall be conducted. The ballot for the runoff election shall provide for a selection between the two choices receiving the largest and second largest number of valid votes cast in the election.(b) An election may not be held and the petition shall be dismissed if either of the following exist:(1) There is currently in effect a lawful written agreement negotiated by the public school employer and another employee organization covering any employees included in the unit described in the request for recognition, or unless the request for recognition is filed less than 120 days, but more than 90 days, prior to the expiration date of the agreement.(2) The public school employer has, within the previous 12 months, lawfully recognized an employee organization other than the petitioner as the exclusive representative of any employees included in the unit described in the petition.(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 190, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Govt Code § 3544.9 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification|Section 3544.9.

3544.9.  The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative for the purpose of meeting and negotiating shall fairly represent each and every employee in the appropriate unit.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 961.)
CA Govt Code § 3545 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 6 - Unit Determinations|Section 3545.

3545.  (a) In each case where the appropriateness of the unit is an issue, the board shall decide the question on the basis of the community of interest between and among the employees and their established practices including, among other things, the extent to which such employees belong to the same employee organization, and the effect of the size of the unit on the efficient operation of the school district.(b) In all cases:(1) A negotiating unit that includes classroom teachers shall not be appropriate unless it at least includes all of the classroom teachers employed by the public school employer, except management employees, supervisory employees, and confidential employees.(2) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a negotiating unit of supervisory employees shall not be appropriate unless it includes all supervisory employees employed by the district and shall not be represented by the same employee organization as employees whom the supervisory employees supervise.(3) Classified employees and certificated employees shall not be included in the same negotiating unit.(c) In the case of a district which employs 20 or more supervisory peace officer employees, a negotiating unit of supervisory employees shall be appropriate if it includes any of the following:(1) All supervisory nonpeace officer employees employed by the district and all supervisory peace officer employees employed by the district.(2) All supervisory nonpeace officer employees employed by the district, exclusively.(3) All supervisory peace officer employees employed by the district, exclusively.A negotiating unit of supervisory employees shall not be represented by the same employee organization as employees whom the supervisory employees supervise.(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 832, Sec. 1.)
CA Govt Code § 3546.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security|Section 3546.3.

3546.3.  Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 3540.1, Section 3546, or any other provision of this chapter, any employee who is a member of a religious body whose traditional tenets or teachings include objections to joining or financially supporting employee organizations shall not be required to join, maintain membership in, or financially support any employee organization as a condition of employment; except that such employee may be required, in lieu of a service fee, to pay sums equal to such service fee either to a nonreligious, nonlabor organization, charitable fund exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code, chosen by such employee from a list of at least three such funds, designated in the organizational security arrangement, or if the arrangement fails to designate such funds, then to any such fund chosen by the employee. Either the employee organization or the public school employer may require that proof of such payments be made on an annual basis to the public school employer as a condition of continued exemption from the requirement of financial support to the recognized employee organization. If such employee who holds conscientious objections pursuant to this section requests the employee organization to use the grievance procedure or arbitration procedure on the employee’s behalf, the employee organization is authorized to charge the employee for the reasonable cost of using such procedure.(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 816.)
CA Govt Code § 3546.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security|Section 3546.5.

3546.5.  Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to the board and to the employees who are members of the organization, within 60 days after the end of its fiscal year, a detailed written financial report thereof in the form of a balance sheet and an operating statement, signed and certified as to accuracy by its president and treasurer, or corresponding principal officers. In the event of failure of compliance with this section, any employee within the organization may petition the board for an order compelling such compliance, or the board may issue such compliance order on its motion.(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 185.)
CA Govt Code § 3547 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 8 - Public Notice|Section 3547.

3547.  (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of public school employers, which relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be presented at a public meeting of the public school employer and thereafter shall be public records.(b) Meeting and negotiating shall not take place on any proposal until a reasonable time has elapsed after the submission of the proposal to enable the public to become informed and the public has the opportunity to express itself regarding the proposal at a meeting of the public school employer.(c) After the public has had the opportunity to express itself, the public school employer shall, at a meeting which is open to the public, adopt its initial proposal.(d) New subjects of meeting and negotiating arising after the presentation of initial proposals shall be made public within 24 hours. If a vote is taken on such subject by the public school employer, the vote thereon by each member voting shall also be made public within 24 hours.(e) The board may adopt regulations for the purpose of implementing this section, which are consistent with the intent of the section; namely that the public be informed of the issues that are being negotiated upon and have full opportunity to express their views on the issues to the public school employer, and to know of the positions of their elected representatives.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 961.)
CA Govt Code § 3547.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 8 - Public Notice|Section 3547.5.

3547.5.  (a) Before a public school employer enters into a written agreement with an exclusive representative covering matters within the scope of representation, the major provisions of the agreement, including, but not limited to, the costs that would be incurred by the public school employer under the agreement for the current and subsequent fiscal years, shall be disclosed at a public meeting of the public school employer in a format established for this purpose by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.(b) The superintendent of the school district and chief business official shall certify in writing that the costs incurred by the school district under the agreement can be met by the district during the term of the agreement. This certification shall be prepared in a format similar to that of the reports required pursuant to Sections 42130 and 42131 of the Education Code and shall itemize any budget revision necessary to meet the costs of the agreement in each year of its term.(c) If a school district does not adopt all of the revisions to its budget needed in the current fiscal year to meet the costs of a collective bargaining agreement, the county superintendent of schools shall issue a qualified or negative certification for the district on the next interim report pursuant to Section 42131 of the Education Code.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 52, Sec. 17. Effective June 21, 2004.)
CA Govt Code § 3548 (2021)
2021 California Code|Government Code - GOV|TITLE 1 - GENERAL|DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES|CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment|ARTICLE 9 - Impasse Procedures|Section 3548.

3548.  Either a public school employer or the exclusive representative may declare that an impasse has been reached between the parties in negotiations over matters within the scope of representation and may request the board to appoint a mediator for the purpose of assisting them in reconciling their differences and resolving the controversy on terms which are mutually acceptable. If the board determines that an impasse exists, it shall, in no event later than five working days after the receipt of a request, appoint a mediator in accordance with such rules as it shall prescribe. The mediator shall meet forthwith with the parties or their representatives, either jointly or separately, and shall take such other steps as he may deem appropriate in order to persuade the parties to resolve their differences and effect a mutually acceptable agreement. The services of the mediator, including any per diem fees, and actual and necessary travel and subsistence expenses, shall be provided by the board without cost to the parties. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the parties from mutually agreeing upon their own mediation procedure and in the event of such agreement, the board shall not appoint its own mediator, unless failure to do so would be inconsistent with the policies of this chapter. If the parties agree upon their own mediation procedure, the cost of the services of any appointed mediator, unless appointed by the board, including any per diem fees, and actual and necessary travel and subsistence expenses, shall be borne equally by the parties.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 961.)