EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH (FOR SPECIFIC SUBJECTS, SEE SCOPE OF REPRESENTATION, SEC 1000) – Decision vs Effects Bargaining

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* * * OVERRULED IN PART by Rio Hondo Community College District (2013) PERB Decision No. 2313-E, where the Board held that a demand to bargain only needs to identify potential prospective effects, not actual effects. * * *

Employees’ reporting location is not within the scope of representation under EERA. Charge failed to establish that the employer’s decision to change employees’ reporting location had any actual effect on subjects within the scope of representation. Thus, the employer had no duty to bargain with the union over the decision or its effects prior to implementing the change in reporting location.