EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION, EMPLOYER CONDUCT AFFECTING ORGANIZING, UNION ACCESS; SOLICITATION, AND OTHER UNION RIGHTS – Released Time

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A union may not waive the right to receive release time without loss of compensation or benefits. Parties, however, are not prevented from agreeing to release-time terms that are more generous than those required by MMBA section 3505.3(a). (See San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools (2024) PERB Decision No. 2934, p. 22 [where a statutory right is non-waivable, parties may nonetheless agree to more generous terms].) Moreover, the same principles apply to release time for bargaining as to other forms of release time that MMBA section 3505.3 protects. (pp. 5, fn. 15 & 15-16.)