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Public Employment Relations Board details startup history, early caseload and role handling unfair labor practices
Summary
PERB executive director Jess Anna King told the Senate Labor Committee about PERB’s creation, pause and restart, its investigatory process for unfair labor-practice charges and recent caseload numbers; the agency emphasized neutrality and a faster, lower-cost forum for public-sector labor disputes
Jess Anna King, executive director and general counsel for the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), presented an overview of the board’s statutory role, history and current operations to the Senate Labor Committee. King described the agency’s origin, early funding and the caseload it has handled since beginning operations with staff and funding in July 2023.
Nut graf: PERB was created to provide a specialized, administrative forum for the investigation and resolution of public-sector unfair labor practices under the Public Employment Labor Relations Act (PELRA, chapter 179 a) and has docketed a significant number of charges since jurisdiction and funding became stable in 2023.
King told the committee that the PERB was first created by statute in 2014 with…
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