California Government Code CHAPTER 10.4 - Judicial Council Employer-Employee Relations

Section 3524.50.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Judicial Council Employer-Employee Relations Act.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 835, Sec. 1. (AB 83)...
Section 3524.51.
The Legislature finds and declares that it is the purpose of this chapter to promote full communication between the Judicial Council and its employees by...
Section 3524.52.
For purposes of this chapter:(a) “Board” means the Public Employment Relations Board. The powers and duties of the board described in Section 3541.3 shall also apply,...
Section 3524.53.
The Judicial Council shall have the sole authority and discretion to designate Judicial Council state employee positions as excluded positions, provided that managerial, supervisory, confidential,...
Section 3524.54.
Any person who willfully resists, prevents, impedes, or interferes with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of duties...
Section 3524.55.
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 3524.56.
Except as otherwise provided by the Legislature, Judicial Council employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations...
Section 3524.57.
Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with the Judicial Council, except that once an employee organization is...
Section 3524.58.
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 3524.59.
(a) Once an employee organization is recognized as the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit, it may enter into an agreement with the Judicial Council providing...
Section 3524.60.
Any Judicial Council employee who pays a fair share fee shall have the right to demand and receive from the recognized employee organization, under procedures...
Section 3524.61.
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 3524.62.
(a) Except in cases of emergency as provided in subdivision (b), the employer shall give reasonable written notice to each recognized employee organization affected by any...
Section 3524.63.
The Administrative Director of the Courts, or his or her designated representatives, acting with the authorization of the Chairperson of the Judicial Council, shall meet...
Section 3524.64.
If an agreement is reached between the Administrative Director of the Courts and the recognized employee organization, they shall jointly prepare a written memorandum of...
Section 3524.65.
(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 3524.66.
If the Legislature does not fully fund any provision of the memorandum of understanding that requires the expenditure of funds, either party may reopen negotiations...
Section 3524.67.
(a) If a memorandum of understanding has expired, and the Administrative Director of the Courts and the recognized employee organization have not agreed to a new...
Section 3524.68.
If after a reasonable period of time, the Administrative Director of the Courts and the recognized employee organization fail to reach agreement, the Administrative Director...
Section 3524.69.
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 3524.70.
Managerial employees, confidential employees, supervisory employees, and excluded employees shall be prohibited from holding elective office in an employee organization that also represents Judicial Council...
Section 3524.71.
It shall be unlawful for the Judicial Council to do any of the following:(a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten...
Section 3524.72.
It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to do any of the following:(a) Cause or attempt to cause the Judicial Council to violate Section 3524.71.(b) Impose...
Section 3524.73.
(a) Judicial review of a unit determination shall only be allowed under either of the following circumstances:(1) When the board, in response to a petition from the...
Section 3524.74.
(a) The Judicial Council shall grant exclusive recognition to employee organizations designated or selected pursuant to rules established by the board for employees of the Judicial...
Section 3524.75.
The Judicial Council 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 3524.76.
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 3524.77.
(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 3524.78.
(a) (1) All initial meet and confer proposals of recognized employee organizations shall be presented to the employer at a public meeting, and those proposals thereafter shall...
Section 3524.79.
This chapter shall not be construed to apply Section 923 of the Labor Code to Judicial Council employees.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 835, Sec. 1....
Section 3524.80.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as modifying or eliminating any existing wages, hours, or terms and conditions of employment for Judicial Council employees....
Section 3524.81.
If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof, to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect any other...

Last modified: October 22, 2018