Showing posts with label PERB News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PERB News. Show all posts

Monday, March 17, 2008

PERB Chair to Speak at Bar Luncheon

Karen Neuwald, Chair of the Public Employment Relations Board, will be speaking on "What's New at PERB" at the March 25th luncheon of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the Sacramento County Bar Association.

The luncheon is at 11:45 am. at the Firehouse Restaurant in Sacramento. Cost is $18 for members of the Sacramento County Bar Association or $23 for nonmembers. Contact Melissa Strand at 916-321-4500 or mstrand@kmtg.com for reservations.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

PERB Annual Report: HEERA Still Most Contentious

PERB's Annual Report for 2006-2007 is now available on its wesbite.

In fiscal year 2006-07, 823 unfair practices charges were filed with PERB, compared to 1012 the year before; a 19% decrease. Interestingly, that decrease was due mostly to the number of unfair practice charges filed under HEERA, which went from 328 in 2005-06, to 92 in 2006-07.

Despite the drastic decrease in the number of unfair practice charges, higher education still remains the most contentious of the public sector arenas based on the number of unfair practice charges compared to the number of employees covered under each Act.

Consider, according to PERB's 2006-07 annual report, 71 charges were filed under Dills, 343 under EERA, 92 under HEERA, and 297 under MMBA. The number of employees covered under each Act is (roughly): 125,000 under Dills, 675,000 under EERA, 100,000 under HEERA, and 1,000,000 under MMBA.

Based on these figures, the number of unfair practice charges filed per 10,000 employees is: 5.68 under Dills, 5.08 under EERA, 9.2 under HEERA, and 2.97 under MMBA. Thus, HEERA generates almost 2 to 3 times the number of unfair practice charges as the other acts.