Relating to public employee collective bargaining concerning the designation of public safety officers and providing for retention and recertification elections

This bill concerns public employee bargaining.3 is amended to designate correctional officers employed by the Iowa department of corrections, jailers employed by a county, and employees of a judicial district department of correctional services at a residential facility operated by the district department as public safety employees for the purposes of collective bargaining pursuant to Code chapter 20, the public employment relations Act. Code chapter and Code chapter 400 include collective bargaining procedures specifically applicable to public safety employees that are not applicable to other public employees, including procedures relating to the scope of collective bargaining negotiations, arbitration procedures, and certain matters relating to city civil service employment. 15 is amended to provide that the board shall only conduct a retention and certification election for a collective bargaining unit if the board has not previously conducted such an election since the collective bargaining representative for that collective bargaining unit was certified.