California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 3 - Public Employment Relations Board › Chapter 6 - Representation Proceedings Under Public Utilities Code Transit District Acts › Subchapter 2 - Representation Procedures Under the los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act › Article 1 - General Provisions › Section 71010 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
For the purposes of this subchapter, the following
						definitions apply:
(a) "Election
					 Intervenor" means an employee organization, whether or not a party to a unit
					 determination hearing, filing an intervention to appear on the ballot for an
					 election in an appropriate unit pursuant to TEERA.
(b) "Employee" or "transit district employee"
					 is defined at Public Utilities Code Section
					 99560.1(e).
					 Non-confidential, supervisory employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
					 Transportation Authority are the only employees covered by TEERA.
(c) "Employee organization," as defined in
					 Public Utilities Code Section
					 99560.1(f),
					 means any organization of any kind in which non-confidential, supervisory
					 employees of the Authority participate and that exists for the purpose, in
					 whole or in part, of dealing with transit district employers concerning
					 grievances, labor disputes, wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of
					 employment of such employees.
(d)
					 "Employer" or "transit district employer" is defined at Public Utilities Code
					 Section
					 99560.1(g).
					 The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("Authority") is
					 the only employer covered by TEERA.
(e) "Intervenor" means an employee
					 organization filing a competing claim of representation or a challenge to the
					 appropriateness of the unit pursuant to TEERA.
(f) "Parties" means the Authority and any
					 employee organization that is the exclusive representative of any supervisory
					 employees under TEERA, or any employee organization known to have an interest
					 in representing any such employees as demonstrated by an appropriate filing
					 with PERB.
(g) "Petitioner" means
					 an employee organization filing a TEERA representation petition.
(h) "Requester" means an employee
					 organization filing a TEERA request for recognition.
(i) "TEERA" means the Los Angeles County
					 Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act,
					 codified at Public Utilities Code Section
					 99560,
					 et seq.
(j) "Window period" means
					 the 31-day period established pursuant to Public Utilities Code Sections
					 99564.1(c)
					 and
					 99564.4(b)(1),
					 which is not more than 120 days and not less than 90 days prior to the
					 expiration date of a memorandum of understanding negotiated by the PUC transit
					 employer and the exclusive representative. The memorandum of understanding
					 expiration date means the last effective date of the memorandum.
					 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section
					 32130, the date on which the
					 memorandum of understanding expires shall not be counted for the purpose of
					 computing the window period.
Note: Authority cited: Section
						  99561(f),
						  Public Utilities Code. Reference: Sections
						  99560.1,
						  99564,
						  99564.1,
						  99564.2,
						  99564.3
						  and
						  99566.1,
						  Public Utilities Code.