The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act provides for the representation of local public employees by employee organizations and for the execution of memoranda of understanding between those organizations and local public agencies. The act requires a public agency to adopt reasonable rules and regulations after consultation in good faith with representatives of an employee organization for the administration of employer-employee relations under its provisions.

This bill would require the governing body of a public agency in a county with a population in excess of 4,000,000 that has established an employee relations commission for the administration of employer-employee relations to require the commission to calendar hearings on an unfair labor practice charge within 90 days after the date the charge was filed.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.