Decision 1414E – Golden Plains Unified School District

SA-CE-1916-E

Decision Date: October 26, 2000

Decision Type: PERB Decision

Description: The Board dismissed the unfair practice charge, which alleged that the employer violated the EERA when it failed to negotiate the adoption of a board policy pertaining to termination of any bus driver employee who failed to pass a re- certification test.

Disposition: Dismissed. There was no unilateral change because the employee organization failed to establish the existence of a past practice of accommodating bus driver employees who failed to pass a re-certification test.

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Perc Vol: 25
Perc Index: 32009

Decision Headnotes

602.00000 – EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; UNILATERAL CHANGE (FOR NEGOT OF SPECIFIC SUBJECTS, SEE SEC 1000, SCOPE OF REPRESENTATION)
602.06000 – Change in Past Practice

An evaluation of the employer's "regular and consistent past patterns of changes" found that no past practice of post-revocation accommodation had been established. There was no "status quo" for the District to have unilaterally modified, and there was no support to the allegation that EERA section 3543.5(c) had been violated; pp. 10-13, proposed dec.

608.00000 – EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; DEFENSES
608.05000 – Past Practice; Maintenance of Status Quo

An evaluation of the employer's "regular and consistent past patterns of changes" found that no past practice of post-revocation accommodation had been established. There was no "status quo" for the District to have unilaterally modified, and there was no support to the allegation that EERA section 3543.5(c) had been violated; pp. 10-13, proposed dec.