BILL NUMBER: AB 295	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gipson

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2015

   An act to add Section 3507.15 to the Government Code, relating to
public employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 295, as introduced, Gipson. Public employment: employee
organizations.
   The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act regulates the labor relations of local
public agencies and their employees. The act grants employees the
right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee
organizations for the purposes of representation on all matters of
employer-employee relations, and grants recognized employee
organizations the right to represent their members in their
employment relations with public agencies. The act requires a public
agency to grant exclusive or majority recognition to an employee
organization if specified requirements are met.
   This bill would require a public agency, if the public agency
becomes the successor employer to a private employer that offers
emergency medical transportation services, to immediately recognize a
new bargaining unit consisting of the emergency medical
transportation employees of the predecessor private employer and
recognize an employee organization as the exclusive representative of
the new bargaining unit if the employee organization meets specified
certification or recognition requirements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3507.15 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   3507.15.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3507.1 or rules adopted by a
public agency pursuant to Section 3507, if a public agency becomes
the successor employer to a private employer that offers emergency
medical transportation services, the public agency shall immediately
do both of the following:
   (1) Consider the employees who were previously employed by the
private employer to be part of a new bargaining unit, and recognize
that new bargaining unit as appropriate.
   (2) Recognize an employee organization as the exclusive
representative of the new bargaining unit if the employee
organization has either of the following:
   (A) Certification by the National Labor Relations Board as the
representative of the employees when the employees were employed by
the private employer.
   (B) Recognition by the private employer as the representative of
the employees.
   (b) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:
   (1) "Employee" means an employee who is employed to provide
emergency medical transportation services.
   (2) "Emergency medical transportation services" includes the
emergency transportation services set forth in Sections 14105.94 and
14105.95 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
   (3) "Private employer" means an employer that is not a public
agency.
   (4) "Successor employer" means any public agency that is the
purchaser, assignee, or transferee of a business or service whose
employees are subject to a collective bargaining agreement, if the
purchaser, assignee, or transferee uses substantially the same
facilities or workforce to offer substantially the same services as
the predecessor employer.
   (c) This section does not affect an employee organization's right
to disclaim representation of a bargaining unit.