Public employee relations: agency shop arrangements.

Existing law, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, regulates labor relations between employees and management of local public agencies. Existing law permits an agency shop agreement to be negotiated between a public agency and a recognized public employee organization that has been recognized as the exclusive or majority bargaining agent and defines an agency shop as an arrangement that requires an employee, as a condition of continued employment, to join the recognized employee organization or to pay the organization a service fee, as specified. Existing law permits an agency shop arrangement to be implemented without negotiation upon submission of a prescribed petition and a specified vote of the employees. Existing law prohibits an agency shop arrangement from applying to management employees. Existing law grants the employee relations commissions in the County of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles the authority to take certain actions that would otherwise be the responsibility of the Public Employment Relations Board. This bill would authorize the inclusion of management employees in an agency shop arrangement in the County of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles.