Bill Text: CA AB2835 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public employees: orientation and informational programs: exclusive representatives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-11-30 - Died on Senate inactive file. [AB2835 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2835-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2835	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cooper

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 3543.5 of the Government Code, relating to
public school employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2835, as introduced, Cooper. Public school employment:
collective bargaining: unlawful activities.
   Under existing law, public school employees have the right to
form, join, and participate in the activities of employee
organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation
on all matters of employer-employee relations. Existing law makes
certain acts of public school employers, such as school districts,
unlawful, including, among others, the refusal or failure to meet and
negotiate in good faith with an exclusive representative.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that later
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 3543.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   3543.5.  It is unlawful for a public school employer to do any of
the following:
   (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to
discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or
otherwise to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees because of
their exercise of rights guaranteed by this chapter. For purposes of
this subdivision, "employee" includes an applicant for employment or
reemployment.
   (b) Deny to employee organizations rights guaranteed to them by
this chapter.
   (c) Refuse or fail to meet and negotiate in good faith with an
exclusive representative.  Knowingly   For
purposes of this subdivision, knowingly  providing an exclusive
representative with inaccurate information, whether or not in
response to a request for information, regarding the financial
resources of the public school employer constitutes a refusal or
failure to meet and negotiate in good faith.
   (d) Dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of
any employee organization, or contribute financial or other support
to it, or in any way encourage employees to join any organization in
preference to another.
   (e) Refuse to participate in good faith in the impasse 
procedure   procedures  set forth in Article 9
(commencing with Section 3548).