AB 1181, as amended, 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 orbegin delete representingend deletebegin insert appearing as the designated representative, as defined, ofend insert 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 agencybegin insert or by the public agency against the employee organizationend insert, or when they are testifying orbegin delete representingend deletebegin insert appearing as the designated representative, as defined, ofend insert the employee organization inbegin delete other employment relationsend delete mattersbegin insert before a personnel or merit commissionend insert. 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 3505.3 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
(a) Public agencies shall allow a reasonable number
4of public agency employee representatives of recognized employee
5organizations reasonable time off without loss of compensation
6or other benefits when they are participating in any one of the
7following activities:
8(1) Formally meeting and conferring with representatives of the
9public agency on matters within the scope of representation.
10(2) Testifying orbegin delete representingend deletebegin insert appearing as the designated
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representative ofend insert the employee organization in conferences,
12hearings, or other proceedings before the board, or an agent thereof,
13in matters relating to a charge filed by the employee organization
14against the public agencybegin insert or by the public agency against the
15employee organizationend insert.
16(3) Testifying orbegin delete representingend deletebegin insert appearing as the designated
17representative ofend insert the employee organization inbegin delete otherend delete matters
18begin delete employment relations, includingend deletebegin insert
before a end insert personnelbegin delete andend deletebegin insert orend insert merit
19commission begin deletehearingsend delete .
20(b) The employee organization being represented shall provide
21reasonable notification to the employer requesting a leave of
22absence without loss of compensation pursuant to subdivision (a).
23(c) For the purposes of this section, “designated representative”
24means an officer of the employee organization or a member serving
25in proxy of the employee organization.
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