Bill Text: CA AB2751 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Agricultural labor relations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 718, Statutes of 2018. [AB2751 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2751-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 25, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 22, 2018 |
Assembly Bill | No. 2751 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Mark Stone |
February 16, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The act provides a mediation procedure applicable to specified agricultural employers and a labor organization certified as the exclusive bargaining agent of a bargaining unit of agricultural employees. Under the act, either party is permitted to file with the board, following a specified period, a declaration that the
parties have failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement. The act requires the board, upon receipt of a declaration pursuant to this procedure, to immediately issue an order directing the parties to mandatory mediation and conciliation with an appointed mediator of the issues for a specified period.
The act requires the mediator, if the parties do not resolve the issues to their mutual satisfaction, to certify that the mediation process has been exhausted and requires the mediator to file a report with the board that resolves all issues between the parties and establishes the final terms of a collective bargaining agreement. The act permits either party, within a specified period, to petition the board to review the mediator’s report, and requires the mediator’s report to become the final order of the board, unless the board accepts the petition for review.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1149.3 is added to the Labor Code, to read:1149.3.
(a) The board shall process to final board order all decisions concerning make-whole awards, backpay, and other monetary awards to employees, within one year of any board order finding liability for that award, unless the board certifies to the parties that there is good cause for exceeding this time limit and provides a reasoned explanation for the assertion of good cause.The board shall conduct and complete an expedited study by January 31, 2019, on how to eliminate delays and expedite the implementation of collective bargaining agreements ordered by the board after the completion of the mandatory mediation and conciliation procedures in Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 1164). The board shall provide for recommendations and adopt regulations to implement any recommendations by June 1, 2019.