California Government Code CHAPTER 10.3 - State Employer-Employee Relations

• Section 3512.
  It is the purpose of this chapter to promote full communication between the state and its employees by providing a reasonable method of resolving disputes...
• Section 3513.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Employee organization” means any organization that includes employees of the state and that has as one of its primary purposes representing...
• Section 3514.
  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...
• Section 3514.5.
  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...
• Section 3515.
  Except as otherwise provided by the Legislature, state employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of...
• Section 3515.5.
  Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with the state, except that once an employee organization is recognized...
• Section 3515.6.
  All employee organizations shall have the right to have membership dues, initiation fees, membership benefit programs, and general assessments deducted pursuant to subdivision (a) of...
• Section 3515.7.
  (a) Once an employee organization is recognized as the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit it may enter into an agreement with the state employer providing...
• Section 3515.8.
  Any state employee who pays a fair share fee shall have the right to demand and receive from the recognized employee organization, under procedures established...
• Section 3516.
  The scope of representation shall be limited to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, except, however, that the scope of representation shall...
• Section 3516.5.
  Except in cases of emergency as provided in this section, the employer shall give reasonable written notice to each recognized employee organization affected by any...
• Section 3517.
  The Governor, or his representative as may be properly designated by law, shall meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms...
• Section 3517.5.
  If agreement is reached between the Governor and the recognized employee organization, they shall jointly prepare a written memorandum of such understanding which shall be...
• Section 3517.6.
  (a) (1) In any case where the provisions of Section 70031 of the Education Code, or subdivision (i) of Section 3513, or Section 14876, 18714, 19080.5, 19100,...
• Section 3517.61.
  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6, for state employees in State Bargaining Unit 6, in any case where the provisions of Section 70031 of the Education Code, subdivision...
• Section 3517.63.
  (a) Any side letter, appendix, or other addendum to a properly ratified memorandum of understanding that requires the expenditure of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)...
• Section 3517.7.
  If the Legislature does not approve or fully fund any provision of the memorandum of understanding which requires the expenditure of funds, either party may...
• Section 3517.8.
  (a) If a memorandum of understanding has expired, and the Governor and the recognized employee organization have not agreed to a new memorandum of understanding and...
• Section 3518.
  If after a reasonable period of time, the Governor and the recognized employee organization fail to reach agreement, the Governor and the recognized employee organization...
• Section 3518.5.
  A reasonable number of employee representatives of recognized employee organizations shall be granted reasonable time off without loss of compensation or other benefits when formally...
• Section 3518.7.
  Managerial employees and confidential employees shall be prohibited from holding elective office in an employee organization which also represents “state employees,” as defined in subdivision...
• Section 3519.
  It shall be unlawful for the state to do any of the following:(a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to...
• Section 3519.5.
  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to:(a) Cause or attempt to cause the state to violate Section 3519.(b) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on...
• Section 3520.
  (a) Judicial review of a unit determination shall only be allowed: (1) when the board, in response to a petition from the state or an employee...
• Section 3520.5.
  (a) The state shall grant exclusive recognition to employee organizations designated or selected pursuant to rules established by the board for employees of the state or...
• Section 3520.7.
  The state employer shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations for all of the following:(a) Registering employee organizations, as defined by subdivision (c) of Section 1150, and...
• Section 3520.8.
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization is appealed, the decision...
• Section 3521.
  (a) In determining an appropriate unit, the board shall be governed by the criteria in subdivision (b). However, the board shall not direct an election in...
• Section 3521.5.
  The term “professional employee” means (a) any employee engaged in work (1) predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical,...
• Section 3521.7.
  The board may, in accordance with reasonable standards, designate positions or classes of positions which have duties consisting primarily of the enforcement of state laws....
• Section 3522.
  (a) Physicians in any state bargaining unit may negotiate under this chapter for preauthorized travel outside the state for continuing medical education.(b) The execution of a memorandum...
• Section 3523.
  (a) All initial meet and confer proposals of recognized employee organizations shall be presented to the employer at a public meeting, and such proposals thereafter shall...
• Section 3523.5.
  The enactment of this chapter shall not be construed as making the provisions of Section 923 of the Labor Code applicable to state employees.(Added by...
• Section 3524.
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Ralph C. Dills Act.(Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 103, Sec. 1.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018