SSB 1226

This provision applies to collective bargaining procedures pursuant to Code chapter initiated on or after the effective date of the bill. _____ units which are not represented by a certified employee organization. The bill provides that amendment by the PERB of a public employee collective bargaining unit represented by a certified representative shall be upon petition filed by the public employer or certified representative of the bargaining unit. The bill provides that reconsideration and alteration by the PERB of a previously determined public employee collective bargaining unit that is not represented by a certified representative shall be upon the combined petition of an employee organization which also seeks a representation election. The bill provides that procedures of the PERB applicable to determining a public employee collective bargaining unit apply to amending a represented bargaining unit or reconsidering and altering a previously determined bargaining unit. The bill provides that a petition to amend the composition of a public employee collective bargaining unit represented by a certified representative by removing all public safety employees from the bargaining unit may be filed by a public safety employee who is a member of the bargaining unit. The bill requires the PERB to conduct a public hearing to receive written or oral testimony within days of receiving such a petition if the petition is accompanied by evidence satisfactory to the PERB that the public safety employees in the bargaining unit do not constitute at least percent of the employees in the bargaining unit and that a majority of the public safety employees in the bargaining unit support the petition. After the hearing, the bill requires the PERB to promptly thereafter issue an order granting or denying the requested amendment to the composition of the bargaining unit. _____ years has elapsed since the date of the removal. The first prohibited petition is a petition that would determine a bargaining unit that would include any removed public safety employee still employed by the same public employer. The second prohibited petition that would amend a represented bargaining unit or reconsider and alter a previously determined bargaining unit if acting on the petition would result in the inclusion of any removed public safety employee employed by the same public employer in a bargaining unit. The bill takes effect upon enactment.