California Code
DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 10.7 - Meeting and Negotiating in Public Educational Employment

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 3540. - 3540. It is the purpose of this chapter to promote...

Section 3540.1. - 3540.1. As used in this chapter: (a) “Board” means the...

Section 3540.2. - 3540.2. (a) A school district that has a qualified or...

ARTICLE 2 - Administration

Section 3541. - 3541. (a) There is in state government the Public Employment...

Section 3541.3. - 3541.3. The board shall have all of the following powers...

Section 3541.35. - 3541.35. Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an...

Section 3541.4. - 3541.4. Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or...

Section 3541.5. - 3541.5. The initial determination as to whether the charges of...

ARTICLE 3 - Judicial Review

Section 3542. - 3542. (a) No employer or employee organization shall have the...

ARTICLE 4 - Rights, Obligations, Prohibitions, and Unfair Practices

Section 3543. - 3543. (a) Public school employees shall have the right to...

Section 3543.1. - 3543.1. (a) Employee organizations shall have the right to represent...

Section 3543.2. - 3543.2. (a) (1) The scope of representation shall be limited...

Section 3543.3. - 3543.3. A public school employer or such representatives as it...

Section 3543.4. - 3543.4. A person serving in a management position, senior management...

Section 3543.5. - 3543.5. It is unlawful for a public school employer to...

Section 3543.6. - 3543.6. It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to:...

Section 3543.7. - 3543.7. The duty to meet and negotiate in good faith...

Section 3543.8. - 3543.8. (a) Any employee organization shall have standing to sue...

ARTICLE 5 - Employee Organizations: Representation, Recognition, Certification, and Decertification

Section 3544. - 3544. (a) An employee organization may become the exclusive representative...

Section 3544.1. - 3544.1. The public school employer shall grant a request for...

Section 3544.3. - 3544.3. If, by January 1 of any school year, no...

Section 3544.5. - 3544.5. A petition may be filed with the board, in...

Section 3544.7. - 3544.7. (a) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to...

Section 3544.9. - 3544.9. The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive...

ARTICLE 6 - Unit Determinations

Section 3545. - 3545. (a) In each case where the appropriateness of the...

ARTICLE 7 - Organizational Security

Section 3546. - 3546. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon receiving...

Section 3546.3. - 3546.3. Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 3540.1, Section 3546, or...

Section 3546.5. - 3546.5. Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an...

ARTICLE 8 - Public Notice

Section 3547. - 3547. (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of...

Section 3547.5. - 3547.5. (a) Before a public school employer enters into a...

ARTICLE 9 - Impasse Procedures

Section 3548. - 3548. Either a public school employer or the exclusive representative...

Section 3548.1. - 3548.1. (a) If the mediator is unable to effect settlement...

Section 3548.2. - 3548.2. (a) The panel shall, within 10 days after its...

Section 3548.3. - 3548.3. (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30...

Section 3548.4. - 3548.4. Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit...

Section 3548.5. - 3548.5. A public school employer and an exclusive representative who...

Section 3548.6. - 3548.6. If the written agreement does not include procedures authorized...

Section 3548.7. - 3548.7. Where a party to a written agreement is aggrieved...

Section 3548.8. - 3548.8. An arbitration award made pursuant to Section 3548.5, 3548.6,...

ARTICLE 10 - Miscellaneous

Section 3549. - 3549. The enactment of this chapter shall not be construed...

Section 3549.1. - 3549.1. All the proceedings set forth in subdivisions (a) to...

Section 3549.3. - 3549.3. If any provisions of this chapter or the application...