Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4117 - Public Employees' Collective Bargaining

• Section 4117.01 - Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Person," in addition to those included in division (C) of section 1.59 of the Revised Code, includes employee...
• Section 4117.02 - State Employment Relations Board.
  (A) There is hereby created the state employment relations board, consisting of three members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and...
• Section 4117.03 - Rights Of Public Employees.
  (A) Public employees have the right to: (1) Form, join, assist, or participate in, or refrain from forming, joining, assisting, or participating in, except...
• Section 4117.04 - Public Employers Exclusive Representative.
  (A) Public employers shall extend to an exclusive representative designated under section 4117.05 of the Revised Code, the right to represent exclusively the employees...
• Section 4117.05 - Employee Organization To Become Exclusive Representative - Procedure.
  (A) An employee organization becomes the exclusive representative of all the public employees in an appropriate unit for the purposes of collective bargaining by...
• Section 4117.06 - State Employment Relations Board To Determine Collective Bargaining Unit.
  (A) The state employment relations board shall decide in each case the unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining. The determination is final...
• Section 4117.07 - Procedure Upon Filing Petition For Election.
  (A) When a petition is filed, in accordance with rules prescribed by the state employment relations board: (1) By any employee or group of...
• Section 4117.08 - Matters Subject To Collective Bargaining.
  (A) All matters pertaining to wages, hours, or terms and other conditions of employment and the continuation, modification, or deletion of an existing provision...
• Section 4117.09 - Parties To Execute Written Agreement - Provisions Of Agreement.
  (A) The parties to any collective bargaining agreement shall reduce the agreement to writing and both execute it. (B) The agreement shall contain a...
• Section 4117.10 - Terms Of Agreement.
  (A) An agreement between a public employer and an exclusive representative entered into pursuant to this chapter governs the wages, hours, and terms and...
• Section 4117.101 - Prohibiting Agreements Contrary To Community School Provisions.
  Notwithstanding sections 4117.08 and 4117.10 of the Revised Code, no agreement entered into under this chapter may contain any provision that in any way...
• Section 4117.102 - List Of School Districts With Agreements With Teacher Employee Organizations.
  The state employment relations board shall compile a list of the school districts in the state that have filed with the board agreements entered...
• Section 4117.103 - Contract May Not Prohibit District Board From Utilizing Volunteers.
  Notwithstanding any provision of section 4117.08 or 4117.10 of the Revised Code to the contrary, no agreement entered into under this chapter on or...
• Section 4117.11 - Unfair Labor Practice.
  (A) It is an unfair labor practice for a public employer, its agents, or representatives to: (1) Interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in...
• Section 4117.12 - Board To Investigate Charge Of Violation.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4117.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of an unfair labor practice remediable by the state employment relations board as...
• Section 4117.13 - Board Or Party May Petition Court Of Common Pleas.
  (A) The state employment relations board or the complaining party may petition the court of common pleas for any county wherein an unfair labor...
• Section 4117.14 - Settlement Of Dispute Between Exclusive Representative And Public Employer - Procedures.
  (A) The procedures contained in this section govern the settlement of disputes between an exclusive representative and a public employer concerning the termination or...
• Section 4117.15 - Strike - Injunction.
  (A) Whenever a strike by members of a police or fire department, members of the state highway patrol, deputy sheriffs, dispatchers employed by a...
• Section 4117.16 - Temporary Restraining Order Enjoining Strike.
  (A) Whenever the public employer believes that a lawful strike creates clear and present danger to the health or safety of the public, the...
• Section 4117.17 - Board Proceedings Are Public Records.
  Formal charges, petitions, complaints, orders, evidence, fact-finding recommendations, and other proceedings instituted by the state employment relations board under Chapter 4117. of the Revised...
• Section 4117.18 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No person shall purposely refuse to obey an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction under Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code....
• Section 4117.19 - Employee Organization Reports.
  (A) Every employee organization that is certified or recognized as a representative of public employees under this chapter shall file with the state employment...
• Section 4117.20 - Prohibiting Conflict Of Interest In Bargaining.
  (A) No person who is a member of the same local, state, national, or international organization as the employee organization with which the public...
• Section 4117.21 - Collective Bargaining Meetings Private.
  Collective bargaining meetings between public employers and employee organizations are private, and are not subject to section 121.22 of the Revised Code. Effective Date:...
• Section 4117.22 - Chapter Liberally Construed.
  Chapter 4117: of the Revised Code shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of the purpose of promoting orderly and constructive relationships between all...
• Section 4117.23 - Unauthorized Strikes.
  (A) In the case of a strike that is not authorized in accordance with this chapter, the public employer may notify the state employment...
• Section 4117.24 - Training And Publications Fund.
  (A) The training, publications, and grants fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The state employment relations board shall deposit into the training,...

Last modified: October 10, 2016