SCOPE OF REPRESENTATION – Salaries or Wages

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* * * OVERRULED IN PART ON OTHER GROUNDS by State of California (Department of Agriculture) (2002) PERB Decision No. 1473-S. * * *

The amount of a stipend for a newly created classification is considered wages and, therefore, negotiable. Unilateral implementation of the stipend was violation of EERA section 3543.5(c) and, derivatively, (a) and (b).