ARTICLE XI-A: EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Sec. 16.200.	Title of Ordinance.
Sec. 16.201.	Statement of Purpose.
Sec. 16.202.	Definitions.
Sec. 16.203.	Employee Relations Division.
Sec. 16.204.	Powers and Duties of the Civil Service Commission.
Sec. 16.205.	Utilization of Administrative Law Judges.
Sec. 16.206.	Management Rights.
Sec. 16.207.	Employee Rights.
Sec. 16.208.	Designation of Management, Supervisory and Confidential Employees.
Sec. 16.209.	Procedure for Registration of Employee Organizations.
Sec. 16.210.	Establishment of Bargaining Units.
Sec. 16.211.	Procedure for Recognition of Employee Organization as Exclusive Representative of a Bargaining Unit.
Sec. 16.212.	Decertification.
Sec. 16.213.	Unfair Labor Practices – Peace Officers and Management Employees Only.
Sec. 16.214.	Election of Remedies for Unfair Labor Practices and Other Related Violations – Peace Officers and Management Employees Only.
Sec. 16.215.	Procedures for Administratively Processing Unfair Labor Practices – Peace Officers and Management Employees Only.
Sec. 16.216.	Sanctions for Unfair Labor Practices – Peace Officers and Management Employees Only.
Sec. 16.217.	Meeting and Conferring in Good Faith.
Sec. 16.218.	Employees Meeting on City and County Time.
Sec. 16.219.	Dues Deduction.
Sec. 16.220.	Separability.

 

SEC. 16.200. TITLE OF ORDINANCE.

   This Ordinance shall be known as the Employee Relations Ordinance of the City and County of San Francisco.

(Amended by Ord. 313-76, App. 7/30/76; Ord. 296-10, File No. 101157, App. 12/3/2010; Ord. 17-12, File No. 111067, App. 2/7/2012, Eff. 3/8/2012)

SEC. 16.201. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.

   The purpose of this Ordinance is to promote full communication between the City and County of San Francisco and its employees, to promote the improvement of personnel management and employer employee relations within City and County government by implementing the recognition and other provisions of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act ("MMBA"), California Government Code §§ 3500, et seq., to provide a uniform basis for recognizing the right of City and County employees to join employee organizations of their own choice, and to be represented by such organizations in their employment relationship with the City and County, and to provide a reasonable non-exclusive method of resolving disputes between the City and County and those employees and employee organizations not subject to the jurisdiction of the California Public Employment Relations Board.

   Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to supersede the provisions of the City and County Charter, ordinances, or Civil Service Commission rules establishing and regulating the civil service system; provided, however, that amendments to existing ordinances and Civil Service Commission rules may be proposed through utilization of the meeting and conferring process.

   The provisions of this Ordinance shall be consistent with the terms of the MMBA and shall not supersede any conflicting provision of any collective bargaining agreement during its term.

(Amended by Ord. 313-76, App. 7/30/76; Ord. 296-10, File No. 101157, App. 12/3/2010; Ord. 17-12, File No. 111067, App. 2/7/2012, Eff. 3/8/2012)

SEC. 16.202. DEFINITIONS.

   Unless the context requires otherwise, the words and phrases set forth in Sections 16.202.1 through 16.202.15, inclusive, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in said sections.

SEC. 16.202.1.

   "Confidential employee" means an employee who is privy to recommendations or decisions of City and County management affecting employee relations.

SEC. 16.202.2.

   "Consult" means to communicate verbally or in writing between management and registered employee organizations, the exclusive representative, or, if applicable, individual employees, for the purpose of presenting and obtaining views or advising of intended actions.