Local public employee organizations.

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 prohibits a public agency or an employee organization from, among other things, intimidating, coercing, or discriminating against employees because they have chosen to join, or not join, an employee organization. Existing law requires a public agency to meet and confer in good faith, as defined. This bill would specify that a public agency is prohibited from, among other things, imposing reprisals on or discriminating against employees because of their exercise of rights guaranteed by the act, and would specify that knowingly providing a recognized employee organization with inaccurate information regarding the financial resources of the public employer constitutes a refusal or failure to meet and negotiate in good faith. The bill would declare that these provisions are intended to be technical and clarify existing law.