2025 bills / S.B. 168
S.B. 168 Public Employee Negotiation Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill creates a Labor Relations Board to oversee disputes between public employers and their employees' unions, including union elections, collective bargaining, mediation, fact-finding, arbitration, and unfair labor practice complaints. It also lets public employers deduct union dues from employee pay, sets rules for bargaining and management rights, and bars police officers from striking.
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Official description
- defines terms
- establishes the Labor Relations Board (board)
- describes the composition and duties of the board
- describes the entities the board may employ
- establishes the board's rulemaking authority
- authorizes the board to subpoena witnesses and administer oaths
- establishes who may serve as counsel for public employers and the board
- creates protections for public employees regarding self-organization
- allows a public employer to deduct an employee's dues for a collective bargaining unit from an employee's pay
- requires that labor organizations represent employees without discriminations
- requires that the board investigate a petition on a representation question under certain circumstances
- establishes criteria and the function of a representation election at the direction of the board
- establishes who may represent a public employer in collective bargaining
- establishes management rights of a public employer
- establishes a duty to bargain collectively for both the public employer and an exclusive representative
- describes what a collective bargaining agreement shall contain
- permits and describes the mediation of disputes relating to collective bargaining
- describes how to initiate fact finding relating to a dispute regarding collective bargaining
- establishes fact finding proceedings in a dispute related to collective bargaining
- allows arbitration for a dispute resulting from collective bargaining
- requires the board to establish an education course for fact finders and arbitrators
- describes an unfair labor practice of a public employer
- establishes the process by which an unfair labor practice is investigated and resolved
- establishes a hearing process for an unfair labor practice complaint hearing
- describes the process of the court enforcement and review of a board order
- prohibits police officers from engaging in strikes
- establishes criteria for mediation of a dispute under certain circumstances
- establishes the criteria for arbitration under certain circumstances
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