CASE PROCESSING PROCEDURES;PROCEDURES BEFORE THE BOARD – Interlocutory Appeal

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PERB Regulation 32200 allows the appeal of an interlocutory order to the Board only when the Board agent joins in the request. (p. 3, fn. 4.) Because pre-arbitration deferral has a substantial impact on the charging party’s subsequent ability to pursue the allegations in the charge, and to bring uniformity to PERB’s practice under the various statutes it administers, a Board agent’s decision to defer a charge to arbitration and place it in abeyance pending completion of arbitration proceedings is not an interlocutory order, and therefore PERB Regulation 32200 does not apply in such circumstances. Rather, such a decision is an administrative decision that may be appealed directly to the Board under PERB Regulation 32360. (pp. 8-11.)

PERB Regulation 32380, by its plain language, contemplates that an administrative decision may constitute an interlocutory order. Thus, administrative decisions and interlocutory orders are not mutually exclusive. (pp. 6-7.)

Although the Board has not yet fully delineated the scope of what constitutes an interlocutory order, interlocutory orders are not limited to rulings made in the course of a hearing. (p. 7, fn. 9.)