CHAPTER 10. Local Public Employee Organizations

Heading of Chapter 10 amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 254.

§§ 3500–3511 · 37 sections

§ 3500 (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to promote full communication between public employers and their employees by providing a reasonable method of resolving…
§ 3500.5 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.”
§ 3501 As used in this chapter: (a) “Employee organization” means either of the following: (1) Any organization that includes employees of a public agency and that…
§ 3501.5 As used in this chapter, “public agency” does not mean a superior court.
§ 3502 Except as otherwise provided by the Legislature, public employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee…
§ 3502.1 No public employee shall be subject to punitive action or denied promotion, or threatened with any such treatment, for the exercise of lawful action as an…
§ 3502.3 (a) (1) A public agency shall present the status of vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts during a public hearing before the governing board at least…
§ 3502.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 3502, any other provision of this chapter, or any other law, rule, or regulation, an agency shop agreement may be negotiated…
§ 3503 Recognized employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public agencies. Employee organizations…
§ 3503.1 If an employee covered by Chapter 9.6 (commencing with Section 3250) holds a conscientious objection described in subdivision (c) of Section 3502.5 or declines…
§ 3503.2 If an employee covered by Chapter 9.7 (commencing with Section 3300) holds a conscientious objection described in subdivision (c) of Section 3502.5 or declines…
§ 3504 The scope of representation shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee relations, including, but not limited to, wages,…
§ 3504.1 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the governing body of a…
§ 3504.5 (a) Except in cases of emergency as provided in this section, the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law or by the…
§ 3505 The governing body of a public agency, or such boards, commissions, administrative officers or other representatives as may be properly designated by law or by…
§ 3505.1 If a tentative agreement is reached by the authorized representatives of the public agency and a recognized employee organization or recognized employee…
§ 3505.2 If after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the public agency and the recognized employee organization fail to reach agreement, the public agency…
§ 3505.3 (a) Public agencies shall allow a reasonable number of public agency employee representatives of recognized employee organizations reasonable time off without…
§ 3505.4 (a) The employee organization may request that the parties’ differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days, but not more than 45 days,…
§ 3505.5 (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30 days after the appointment of the factfinding panel, or, upon agreement by both parties within a longer period, the…
§ 3505.7 After any applicable mediation and factfinding procedures have been exhausted, but no earlier than 15 days after the factfinders’ written findings of fact and…
§ 3505.8 An arbitration agreement contained in a memorandum of understanding entered into under this chapter shall be enforceable in an action brought pursuant to Title…
§ 3506 Public agencies and employee organizations shall not interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce or discriminate against public employees because of their…
§ 3506.5 A public agency shall not do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate against…
§ 3507 (a) A public agency may adopt reasonable rules and regulations after consultation in good faith with representatives of a recognized employee organization or…
§ 3507.1 (a) Unit determinations and representation elections shall be determined and processed in accordance with rules adopted by a public agency in accordance with…
§ 3507.3 Professional employees shall not be denied the right to be represented separately from nonprofessional employees by a professional employee organization…
§ 3507.5 In addition to those rules and regulations a public agency may adopt pursuant to and in the same manner as in Section 3507, any such agency may adopt…
§ 3507.7 (a) (1) (A) For purposes of this section, “temporary employee” means a temporary employee, casual employee, seasonal employee, periodic employee, extra-help…
§ 3508 (a) The governing body of a public agency may, in accordance with reasonable standards, designate positions or classes of positions which have duties…
§ 3508.1 For the purposes of this section, the term “police employee” includes the civilian employees of the police department of any city. Police employee does not…
§ 3508.5 (a) Nothing in this chapter shall affect the right of a public employee to authorize a dues or service fees deduction from his or her salary or wages pursuant…
§ 3509 (a) The powers and duties of the board described in Section 3541.3 shall also apply, as appropriate, to this chapter and shall include the authority as set…
§ 3509.3 Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization is appealed,…
§ 3509.5 (a) Any charging party, respondent, or intervenor aggrieved by a final decision or order of the board in an unfair practice case, except a decision of the…
§ 3510 (a) The provisions of this chapter shall be interpreted and applied by the board in a manner consistent with and in accordance with judicial interpretations of…
§ 3511 The changes made to Sections 3501, 3507.1, and 3509 of the Government Code by legislation enacted during the 1999–2000 Regular Session of the Legislature shall…