Section 120508 Of Article 1. Employees Relations From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 11. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
120508
. (a) This article also applies to the employee relations of
employees of a nonprofit entity that operates public mass transit
services and that is solely owned by the board. For employee
relations regarding these employees, "board," as used in this
article, means the board and the board of directors of the nonprofit
entity as the joint employer of the employees.
(b) The board may, at any time in its sole discretion, abolish any
nonprofit entity or merge any nonprofit entity with another
nonprofit entity or with the board.
(c) Upon abolishing or merging a nonprofit entity pursuant to
subdivision (b), the board shall become the sole employer of the
employees of the nonprofit entity and shall assume sole
responsibility to observe all existing labor contracts established
and maintained pursuant to this article.
(d) Except as may be agreed upon through the collective bargaining
process, nothing in this section shall prohibit or limit the right
of the board to contract with common carriers of persons operating
under a franchise, license, or other agreement. Any provision in an
existing collective bargaining agreement made applicable to the board
in its capacity as a joint employer with a nonprofit entity pursuant
to subdivision (a) or sole successor employer pursuant to
subdivision (b) that is intended to prohibit or limit the right of a
nonprofit entity to contract out covered bargaining unit services to
another common carrier of persons shall not be binding upon the board
with respect to any contract for services entered into, renewed, or
extended by the board prior to January 1, 2004, and thereafter shall
apply only to contracts for bargaining unit services covered by an
existing collective bargaining agreement assumed by or binding upon
the board as a joint employer unless otherwise agreed upon through
the collective bargaining process. The amendments to this subdivision
made by Chapter 557 of the Statutes of 2005 are intended solely to
clarify existing law and shall not be interpreted either to enlarge
or contract the board's right to contract out for public
transportation services.