Headnote for 2670M, 1310.07000 - Accretion, Adding classification(s) to existing unit (PERB jurisdictions) - California Public Employment Relations Board

REPRESENTATION ISSUES; UNIT MODIFICATION – Accretion, Adding classification(s) to existing unit (PERB jurisdictions)

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1310.00000 – REPRESENTATION ISSUES; UNIT MODIFICATION
1310.07000 – Accretion, Adding classification(s) to existing unit (PERB jurisdictions)

Under the MMBA, local public agencies may adopt reasonable rules and regulations governing unit determinations and representation elections. (p. 32.) Where a successor employer hires its predecessor’s employees to existing classifications and appropriately accretes them to an existing bargaining unit, it has not modified the unit or otherwise run afoul of its unit modification rules. (pp. 32-33.)