Public employees: collective bargaining: unit determinations.

Existing law authorizes public school employees to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations, as specified. Existing law establishes a process for an employee organization to become the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and negotiating, as specified. Under existing law, in each case where the appropriateness of the unit is an issue, the Public Employment Relations Board is required to decide the question on the basis of the community of interest between and among the employees and their established practices including, among other things, the extent to which those employees belong to the same employee organization, and the effect of the size of the unit on the efficient operation of the school district. Existing law establishes a standard in the case of a district that employs 20 or more supervisory peace officer employees, providing that a negotiating unit of supervisory employees employed by such a district shall be appropriate if the unit includes all supervisory peace officer employees or all supervisory nonpeace officer employees, or both. This bill would reduce the threshold to 2 or more supervisory peace officer employees for that appropriateness standard. The bill, for purposes of determining the number of supervisory peace officer employees, would include only those positions and individuals already declared supervisory by the public school employer as of September 1, 2019, and individuals subsequently promoted into existing positions already deemed supervisory as of September 1, 2019.