EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; UNILATERAL CHANGE (FOR NEGOT OF SPECIFIC SUBJECTS, SEE SEC 1000, SCOPE OF REPRESENTATION) – Change in Past Practice

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* * * OVERRULED BY Pittsburg Unified School District (2022) PERB Decision No. 2833-E, where the Board held that rehiring, reelection, course assignment processes, and work hours for temporary teachers are within the scope of representation. Furthermore, pursuant to the dynamic status quo doctrine, an employer is not permitted to make discretionary changes on these topics merely because it has done so in the past. * * *

No violation where the district's action was consistent with its established past practice of applying academic, management and financial considerations in its semester-by-semester hiring decisions involving part-time, temporary instructors; p. 16. The district's adoption of a policy affecting the hiring of part-time, temporary instructors in future semesters was consistent with its established past practice, and represented an exercise of its management prerogative concerning hiring, organization and assignment of work; p. 18.