BILL NUMBER: AB 1181	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gray

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 3505.3 of the Government Code, relating to
public employee organizations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1181, as introduced, Gray. Public employee organizations:
members: paid leaves of absence.
   The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act requires that local public agencies
allow a reasonable number of local public agency employee
representatives of recognized employee organizations reasonable time
off without loss of compensation or other benefits when formally
meeting and conferring with representatives of the public agency.
   This bill would additionally require the local public agency to
give reasonable time off, without loss of compensation or other
benefits, to public agency employee representatives when they are
testifying or representing the employee organization in proceedings
before the Public Employment Relations Board in matters relating to a
charge filed by the employee organization against the public agency,
or when they are testifying or representing the employee
organization in other employment relations matters. The bill would
require the employee organization being represented to provide
reasonable notification to the employer requesting a leave of absence
without loss of compensation pursuant to these provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 3505.3 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   3505.3.   (a)    Public agencies shall allow a
reasonable number of public agency employee representatives of
recognized employee organizations reasonable time off without loss of
compensation or other benefits when  formally  
they are participating in any one of the following activities: 

    (1)     Formally  meeting and
conferring with representatives of the public agency on matters
within the scope of representation. 
   (2) Testifying, participating, or representing the employee
organization in conferences, hearings, or other proceedings before
the board, or an agent thereof, in matters relating to a charge filed
by the employee organization against the public agency.  
   (3) Testifying, participating, or representing the employee
organization in other matters employment relations, including
personnel and merit commission hearings, city council meetings, and
labor management committee meetings.  
   (b) The employee organization being represented shall provide
reasonable notification to the employer requesting a leave of absence
without loss of compensation pursuant to subdivision (a).