Opinion ID: 2634751
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance Workers) and Unit 13 (Stationary Engineers)

Text: The MOU's between the Department of Personnel Administration and the Operating Engineers (the bargaining agent for employees in Units 12 and 13) date from September 21, 1999. As the exclusive means for resolving minor disciplinary actions, the MOU's for Units 12 and 13 (Unit 12 MOU, Unit 13 MOU) provide a grievance procedure before a four-member Board of Adjustment, consisting of two members chosen by the Department of Personnel Administration and two by the union. For challenges to major disciplinary actions, [2] employees can elect between review before the State Personnel Board or a grievance filed with the Board of Adjustment. The latter's decision is subject to arbitration, which, except for the grounds set out in Code of Civil Procedure section 1286.2 (see p. 3, ante ), is final and binding. To implement the MOU's for Units 12 and 13, the Legislature in 1999 amended section 18670 by adding subdivision (e), providing that these MOU's would control over conflicting provisions of section 18670 without further legislative action.