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Committee hears PERC changes; public employers raise concerns about settlement-waiver ban
Summary
A committee briefing Friday described substitute Senate Bill 5503, which makes multiple changes to PERC procedures — from bargaining-unit certification rules to adjudicative hearing authority — and adds a ban on conditioning grievance settlements on workers’ waiver of statutory claims.
A committee briefing Friday described substitute Senate Bill 5503, which makes multiple changes to the Public Employment Relations Commission’s (PERC) procedures, from bargaining-unit certification to adjudicative hearings and subpoena enforcement.
Ben McCarthy, committee staff, outlined six changes in the bill: updates to challenges to employee eligibility in bargaining units (including a required offer of proof for challenges), new steps when a petition for a new unit is inappropriate, a standardized process for consolidating units represented by a single organization, authority for PERC hearing officers to set hearing dates unilaterally (with motions allowed to change dates), authority to draw adverse inferences from refusal to comply with subpoenas, and a prohibition on public employers requiring workers to waive statutory claims under state or federal law as a condition of…
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