AB 2118, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: regulations.
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, among other things, authorizes local public agencies to adopt reasonable rules and regulations after consultation in good faith with representatives of a recognized employee organization or organizations for the administration of employer-employee relations under the act, which may include specified provisions.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 3507 of the Government Code is amended
2to read:
(a) A public agencybegin delete mayend deletebegin insert may, after consultation in good
4faith with representatives of a recognized employee organization
5or organizations,end insert adopt reasonable rules and regulationsbegin delete after for the administration of
6consultation in good faith with representatives of a recognized
P2 1employee organization or organizationsend delete
2employer-employee relations under this chapter.
3The rules and regulations may include provisions for all of the
4following:
5(1) Verifying that an organization does in fact represent
6employees of the public agency.
7(2) Verifying the official status of employee organization
8officers and representatives.
9(3) Recognition of employee organizations.
10(4) Exclusive recognition of employee organizations formally
11recognized pursuant to a vote of the employees of the agency or
12an appropriate unit thereof, subject to the right of an employee to
13represent himself or herself as provided in Section 3502.
14(5) Additional procedures for the resolution of disputes involving
15wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
16(6) Access of employee organization
officers and representatives
17to work locations.
18(7) Use of official bulletin boards and other means of
19communication by employee organizations.
20(8) Furnishing nonconfidential information pertaining to
21employment relations to employee organizations.
22(9) Any other matters that are necessary to carry out the purposes
23of this chapter.
24(b) Exclusive recognition of employee organizations formally
25recognized as majority representatives pursuant to a vote of the
26employees may be revoked by a majority vote of the employees
27only after a period of not less than 12 months following the date
28of recognition.
29(c) No public agency shall unreasonably withhold recognition
30of employee organizations.
31(d) Employees and employee organizations shall be able to
32challenge a rule or regulation of a public agency as a violation of
33this chapter. This subdivision shall not be construed to restrict or
34expand the board’s jurisdiction or authority as set forth in
35subdivisions (a) to (c), inclusive, of Section 3509.
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