In-home supportive services: collective bargaining penalty.

Existing law establishes the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, administered by the State Department of Social Services and counties, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes. Existing law requires a specified mediation process, including a factfinding panel recommending settlement terms, to be held if a public authority or nonprofit consortium and the employee organization fail to reach agreement on a bargaining contract with IHSS workers. Existing law subjects a county to a withholding of 1991 Realignment funds if, among other things, the county does not reach an agreement with the employee organization within 90 days after the release of the factfinding panel's recommended settlement terms. Existing law specifies that the amount of the 1991 Realignment funding withholding would be 10% of the county's prior fiscal year IHSS Maintenance of Effort requirement and would require that the withholding continue once each fiscal year, until the county enters into a collective bargaining agreement. This bill would change the amount of the 1991 Realignment funding withholding to an unspecified percentage.