Section 31522.9 Of Article 3. Retirement Board From California Government Code >> Division 4. >> Title 3. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 3.
31522.9
. (a) The board of retirement of a county may appoint a
retirement administrator and other personnel as are required to
accomplish the necessary work of the board. The board may authorize
the administrator to make these appointments on its behalf.
Notwithstanding any other law, the personnel so appointed shall not
be county employees but shall become employees of the retirement
system, subject to terms and conditions of employment established by
the board of retirement, including those set forth in memoranda of
understanding executed by the board of retirement and recognized
employee organizations.
(b) Sections 31522.1 and 31522.2 shall not apply to a retirement
system that appoints personnel pursuant to this section.
(c) The retirement system that appoints personnel pursuant to this
section is a public agency for purposes of the Meyers-Milias-Brown
Act (Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4).
(d) The compensation of personnel appointed pursuant to this
section shall be an expense of administration of the retirement
system, pursuant to Section 31580.2, except as provided in Sections
31529.5, 31529.9, and 31596.1.
(e) The board of retirement and the board of supervisors may enter
into agreements as they determine are necessary and appropriate in
order to carry out the provisions of this section.
(f) The retirement system, upon the effective date of this
section, shall retain, for a 90-day transition employment period,
nonprobationary employees who, upon the effective date of this
section, were covered by a county memorandum of understanding and
employed by the county at the retirement system's facilities, unless
just cause exists to terminate the employees or legitimate grounds
exist to lay off these employees. If during the 90-day period the
retirement system determines that a layoff of these employees is
necessary, the retirement system shall retain the employees by
seniority within job classification. The terms and conditions of
employment of the employees retained pursuant to this subdivision
shall be subject to the terms and conditions established by the
applicable memoranda of understanding executed by the board of
retirement and the recognized employee organizations. During the
90-day transition period, probationary employees shall maintain only
those rights they initially acquired pursuant to their employment
with the county.
(g) Subject to the employees' rights under the Meyers-Milias-Brown
Act (Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4), the
retirement system, upon the effective date of this section, shall
recognize as the exclusive representative of the employees retained
pursuant to subdivision (f) the recognized employee organizations
that represented those employees when employed by the county. The
initial terms and conditions for those employees shall be as
previously established by the applicable memoranda of understanding
executed by the county and recognized employee organizations.
(h) This section shall apply only in Contra Costa County.