Chapter 7. Stabilization Of Labor And Employment Relations of California Health And Safety Code >> Division 24. >> Part 1.85. >> Chapter 7.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to stabilize the
labor and employment relations of redevelopment agencies and
successor agencies in furtherance of and connection with their
responsibilities under the act adding this part.
(b) Nothing in the act adding this part is intended to relieve any
redevelopment agency of its obligations under Chapter 10 (commencing
with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code.
Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 34165, prior to its
dissolution, a redevelopment agency shall retain the authority to
meet and confer over matters within the scope of representation.
(c) A successor agency, as defined in Sections 34171 and 34173,
shall constitute a public agency within the meaning of subdivision
(c) of Section 3501 of the Government Code.
(d) Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 34165,
redevelopment agencies, prior to and during their winding down and
dissolution, shall retain the authority to bargain over matters
within the scope of representation.
(e) In recognition that a collective bargaining agreement
represents an enforceable obligation, a successor agency shall become
the employer of all employees of the redevelopment agency as of the
date of the redevelopment agency's dissolution. If, pursuant to this
provision, the successor agency becomes the employer of one or more
employees who, as employees of the redevelopment agency, were
represented by a recognized employee organization, the successor
agency shall be deemed a successor employer and shall be obligated to
recognize and to meet and confer with such employee organization. In
addition, the successor agency shall retain the authority to bargain
over matters within the scope of representation and shall be deemed
to have assumed the obligations under any memorandum of understanding
in effect between the redevelopment agency and recognized employee
organization as of the date of the redevelopment agency's
dissolution.
(f) The Legislature finds and declares that the duties and
responsibilities of local agency employer representatives under this
chapter are substantially similar to the duties and responsibilities
required under existing collective bargaining enforcement procedures
and therefore the costs incurred by the local agency employer
representatives in performing those duties and responsibilities under
the act adding this part are not reimbursable as state-mandated
costs. Furthermore, the Legislature also finds and declares that to
the extent the act adding this part provides the funding with which
to accomplish the obligations provided herein, the costs incurred by
the local agency employer representatives in performing those duties
and responsibilities under the act adding this part are not
reimbursable as state-mandated costs.
(g) The transferred memorandum of understanding and the right of
any employee organization representing such employees to provide
representation shall continue as long as the memorandum of
understanding would have been in force, pursuant to its own terms.
One or more separate bargaining units shall be created in the
successor agency consistent with the bargaining units that had been
established in the redevelopment agency. After the expiration of the
transferred memorandum of understanding, the successor agency shall
continue to be subject to the provisions of the Meyers-Milias-Brown
Act.
(h) Individuals formerly employed by redevelopment agencies that
are subsequently employed by successor agencies shall, for a minimum
of two years, transfer their status and classification in the civil
service system of the redevelopment agency to the successor agency
and shall not be required to requalify to perform the duties that
they previously performed or duties substantially similar in nature
and in required qualification to those that they previously
performed. Any such individuals shall have the right to compete for
employment under the civil service system of the successor agency.