EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; REFUSAL TO PROVIDE INFORMATION – In General

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604.00000 – EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; REFUSAL TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
604.01000 – In General

A responding party cannot rely on CPRA exemptions when responding to an information request arising under a labor relations statute. (Sacramento City Unified School District (2018) PERB Decision No. 2597, p. 10 (Sacramento); see also County of Tulare (2019) PERB Decision No. 2697-M, pp. 14-15, fn. 9 [party responding to information request under labor relations statute may interpose defense to protect internal collective bargaining strategy but may not assert the broader deliberative process privilege applicable under the CPRA].) While the CPRA provides unions with the same right to public records as any person or organization, the statutes PERB administers confer upon an exclusive representative, as part of its representational rights and duties, a separate, broader right to information. The CPRA may not require an employer to “create a new set of public records,” but a union’s information request “may cover both public records and information that may not be found in any existing record,” meaning that “an employer responding to an RFI may be required to compile information from multiple records, management agents, and other sources, unless it can prove that doing so would be unduly burdensome.” (Sacramento, supra, PERB Decision No. 2597, p. 11.) (p. 15.)