Decision A079S – State Employer-Employee Relations Act - Governor's Office of Employee Relations (Phase III)

S-R-1-56-S

Decision Date: October 18, 1979

Decision Type: Administrative Appeal

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Perc Vol: 3
Perc Index: 10133

Decision Headnotes

1107.00000 – CASE PROCESSING PROCEDURES;PROCEDURES BEFORE THE BOARD
1107.17000 – Advisory Opinions

Proper scope of unit determination proceeding is employees who are to be included in designated units. It is unnecessary to address the contention that the Board is without jurisdiction to designate an employee as managerial, confidential, or supervisory in order to formulate appropriate units, as such an inquiry would concern matter not in controversy; pp. 2-3.

1309.00000 – REPRESENTATION ISSUES; UNIT DETERMINATION/CRITERIA (SEE ALSO WHO IS AN EMPLOYEE?, SECTION 200)
1309.01000 – In General/Definition of Appropriate Unit

Proper scope of unit determination proceeding is employees who are to be included in designated units. It is unnecessary to address the contention that the Board is without jurisdiction to designate an employee as managerial, confidential, or supervisory in order to formulate appropriate units, as such an inquiry would concern matter not in controversy; pp. 2-3. Burden in unit determination proceeding is on party seeking exclusion of employees from units to justify the exclusion; p. 2. Burden of justifying exclusion in unit determination proceeding can be met by showing evidence of actual job requirements which disqualify the employee from placement in representation units, irrespective of which exclusionary category those employee may fit; p. 2.

200.00000 – PARTIES; DEFINITIONS; WHO IS AN EMPLOYEE? (SEE 502 AND 1309)
200.01000 – In General

Proper scope of unit determination proceeding is employees who are to be included in designated units. It is unnecessary to address the contention that the Board is without jurisdiction to designate an employee as managerial, confidential, or supervisory in order to formulate appropriate units, as such an inquiry would concern matter not in controversy; pp. 2-3. Burden of proof in unit determination proceeding is on party seeking exclusion of employees from units to justify the exclusion; p. 2. Burden of justifying exclusion in unit determination proceeding can be met by showing evidence of actual job requirements which disqualify the employee from placement in representation units, irrespective of which exclusionary category those employees may fit; p. 2.

1105.00000 – CASE PROCESSING PROCEDURES; EVIDENCE
1105.03000 – Burden of Proof; Weight of Evidence; Presumptions and Inferences; Affirmative Defenses

Burden of proof in unit determination proceeding is on party seeking exclusion of employees from units to justify the exclusion; p. 2. Burden of justifying exclusion in unit determination proceeding can be met by showing evidence of actual job requirements which disqualify the employee from placement in representation units, irrespective of which exclusionary category those employees may fit; p. 2. In unit determination hearing, all evidence relevant to any exclusionary issue would be admitted; p. 2.

1105.00000 – CASE PROCESSING PROCEDURES; EVIDENCE
1105.18000 – Relevance

In unit determination hearing, all evidence relevant to any exclusionary issue would be admitted; p. 2.