EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; DEFENSES – Business Necessity; Emergency Exception

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608.00000 – EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; DEFENSES
608.03000 – Business Necessity; Emergency Exception

An employer bears a “heavy burden” if it “wishes to repudiate a collective bargaining agreement” based on a newly enacted law and cannot do so if the new statutory provisions “give the employer discretion.” (Fountain Valley Elementary School District (1987) PERB Decision No. 625, p. 27.)