Do you plan to enter labor negotiations in the spring? If so, fall is the perfect time to audit your labor agreements.

A labor agreement audit is a legal compliance review and internal analysis of contract language. Regular audits of an agency’s labor agreements are important for many reasons:

  1. Legal Compliance: Labor, leaves, wage and

You’ve probably heard the term “Skelly” meeting or conference hundreds, if not thousands of times, but what does “Skelly” really mean?  Even if you think you know, a refresher can’t hurt, right?!

Most California public employees have what is known as a constitutionally protected “property” interest in continued employment, once and

Gavel-and-Books.JPGBoth the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA) and PERB regulations recognize the right of an employee organization to request factfinding following a declaration of impasse.  That right, however, is not absolute: Government Code section 3505.4(a) and PERB regulation 32802(a)(1) mandate that such a request be made “not sooner than 30 days, but not more than 45 days,