CASE PROCESSING PROCEDURES;PROCEDURES BEFORE THE BOARD – Request for Oral Argument

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The Board typically denies requests for oral argument if there is an adequate record, the parties had a reasonable opportunity to present briefs, and the issues before the Board are sufficiently clear that oral argument is unnecessary. (City of Culver City (2020) PERB Decision No. 2731-M, p. 2, fn. 2.) The Board denied the request for oral argument based on these criteria and given that this decision follows several others in which the Board explained employers’ bargaining duties when the COVID-19 pandemic commenced. (p. 18, fn. 9.)