Headnote for 0130E, 401.05000 - Union Activity During Nonworking Time or in Nonworking Areas - California Public Employment Relations Board

EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION, EMPLOYER CONDUCT AFFECTING ORGANIZING, UNION ACCESS; SOLICITATION, AND OTHER UNION RIGHTS – Union Activity During Nonworking Time or in Nonworking Areas

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401.00000 – EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION, EMPLOYER CONDUCT AFFECTING ORGANIZING, UNION ACCESS; SOLICITATION, AND OTHER UNION RIGHTS
401.05000 – Union Activity During Nonworking Time or in Nonworking Areas

Employer's regulations regarding access must be reasonable, i.e., consistent with labor law principles in EERA which ensure effective and nondisruptive organizational communications; prohibition on distribution of and solicitation during 20 minute periods before and after classes unreasonable; rule prohibiting instructional aides from distribution or solicitation during same 20 minute periods unreasonable because those periods not part of workday; requirement that nonemployee union organizers obtain identification cards unreasonable because does not apply to all visitors; limitations on numbers of employees who can meet unreasonable; pp. 4-23.