SCOPE OF REPRESENTATION – Released Time

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Community college faculty proposal for a one-fifth reduction in the normal 15-hour teaching load for instructors on negotiating team is within scope as being related to hours. Restricting negotiating over released time to only those hours. ". . .when meeting and negotiating" at the table reads section 3543.1 too narrowly. Negotiations includes more than time spent actually at the negotiating table. Evidence of the amount of released time granted in neighboring school districts is relevant to show whether union proposal was "reasonable."