EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; OTHER PER SE VIOLATIONS – Insistence on Nonmandatory/Illegal Subjects (See also Scope of Representation, Sec 1000)

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By enacting EERA section 3549.1, the Legislature intended that negotiations would be attended only by the parties’ representatives, absent an agreement or established practice to the contrary. To the extent a public school employer insists on a policy of excluding employee observers from negotiations, it was simply following the statutory default rule for negotiations, and not unlawfully insisting on or conditioning negotiations on a non-mandatory subject of bargaining. pp. 29-34; 34-37.