The Educational Employment Relations Act (EERA) provides that the scope of representation is restricted to matters relating to wages, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment, including:
In the case of Los Angeles College Faculty Guild Local 1521 v. Los Angeles Community College District, the Los Angeles Community College District removed for-credit remedial courses, which were two levels below transfer level, from the Fall 2019 schedule.
Faculty members received an email explaining that these courses were canceled because they were inconsistent with the implementation plan for Assembly Bill 705. The Los Angeles College Faculty Guild at eight of the district’s nine colleges unsuccessfully filed grievances, then submitted the matter to arbitration under the grievance procedure of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
The district refused to arbitrate. It argued that the guild’s claims were outside the scope of representation under the EERA and outside the CBA’s scope. In response, the guild filed a motion and a petition to compel arbitration.
The trial court denied both the motion...
MATAGORDA COUNTY — A Bay City physician is facing a federal False Claims Act lawsuit alleging he fraudulently billed Medicare nearly $500,000 for surgical neurostimulator electrode implantations h...