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CHAPTER 7. Transit Employer-Employee Relations [99560. - 99570.4.]

Chapter 7 added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 833, Sec. 1.

§§ 99560–99570.4 · 38 sections

  1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 99560–99560.3 · 4 sections
    • § 99560 The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) The people of this state have a fundamental interest in the development of harmonious and cooperative labor…
    • § 99560.1 As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meanings: (a) “Arbitration” means a method of resolving a rights dispute under which the…
    • § 99560.2 This chapter shall be known and may be referred to as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act.
    • § 99560.3 This chapter shall only apply to supervisory employees of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  2. ARTICLE 2. Administration §§ 99561–99561.4 · 5 sections
    • § 99561 This chapter shall be administered by the Public Employment Relations Board. In administering this chapter the board shall have all of the following rights,…
    • § 99561.1 Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of duties pursuant…
    • § 99561.2 The initial determination as to whether the charges of unfair practices are justified, and, if so, what remedy is necessary to effectuate the purposes of this…
    • § 99561.3 The board shall have the power to issue a decision and order directing an offending party to cease and desist from the unfair practice and to take affirmative…
    • § 99561.4 Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization as described…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Judicial Review § 99562 · 1 section
    • § 99562 (a) No employer or employee organization shall have the right to judicial review of a unit determination except: (1) when the board in response to a petition…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Rights, Obligations, Prohibitions, and Unfair Labor Practices §§ 99563–99563.8 · 9 sections
    • § 99563 Transit district employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the…
    • § 99563.1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the Government Code or other laws or statutes, the transit district employer shall make deductions from wages and salaries of…
    • § 99563.2 Subject to reasonable regulations, employee organizations shall have the right of access at reasonable times to areas in which employees work, the right to use…
    • § 99563.3 A reasonable number of representatives of an exclusive representative shall have the right to receive reasonable periods of released or reassigned time without…
    • § 99563.4 Transit district employers, or the representatives as they may designate, shall engage in meeting and conferring with the employee organization selected as…
    • § 99563.5 (a) The scope of representation shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee relations, including, but not limited to,…
    • § 99563.6 The duty to meet and confer in good faith requires the parties to begin negotiations prior to the adoption of the final budget for the ensuing year…
    • § 99563.7 It shall be unlawful for the transit district employer to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or…
    • § 99563.8 It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to: (a) Cause or attempt to cause the transit district employer to violate Section 99563.7. (b) Impose or…
  5. ARTICLE 5. Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification §§ 99564–99564.5 · 6 sections
    • § 99564 An employee organization may become the exclusive representative for the employees of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and conferring by filing a…
    • § 99564.1 The transit district employer shall grant a request for recognition filed pursuant to Section 99564 except in one of the following circumstances: (a) The…
    • § 99564.2 A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether employees…
    • § 99564.3 A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether the…
    • § 99564.4 (a) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 99564.2, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations or hold hearings as it deems necessary…
    • § 99564.5 The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative shall represent all employees in the unit, fairly and impartially. A breach…
  6. ARTICLE 6. Unit Determination § 99565 · 1 section
    • § 99565 (a) In each case where the appropriateness of a unit is an issue, in determining an appropriate unit, the board shall take into consideration all of the…
  7. ARTICLE 7. Organizational Security §§ 99566–99566.3 · 4 sections
    • § 99566 Subject to the limitations set forth in this chapter, organizational security shall be within the scope of representation.
    • § 99566.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon receiving notice from the exclusive representative of a transit district employee who is in a unit for…
    • § 99566.2 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 99560.1, Section 99566, or any other provision of this chapter, any employee who is a member of a religious body…
    • § 99566.3 Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to…
  8. ARTICLE 8. Rights-Disputes Arbitration § 99567 · 1 section
    • § 99567 (a) An employer and an exclusive representative who enter into a written memorandum of understanding may agree to procedures for final and binding arbitration…
  9. ARTICLE 9. Impasse Procedures § 99568 · 1 section
    • § 99568 The impasse procedures contained in Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1137) of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Labor Code shall govern any impasse proceedings…
  10. ARTICLE 10. Public Notice § 99569 · 1 section
    • § 99569 (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of transit district employers, that relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be…
  11. ARTICLE 11. Miscellaneous §§ 99570–99570.4 · 5 sections
    • § 99570 The following proceedings set forth in this section are exempt from the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2…
    • § 99570.1 No memorandum of understanding shall contravene any federal or state law, including rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, prohibiting…
    • § 99570.2 If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter, or…
    • § 99570.3 (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to deprive employees of their rights pursuant to the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (49 U.S.C. Section…
    • § 99570.4 For employees of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority covered under this chapter, this chapter shall supersede subdivisions (a) to (c),…