Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Final PERB Decision

PERB Case No. LA-CE-6050-E 

The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has declared the decision in the Orcutt Educators Association v. Orcutt Union School District case related to exceptions made to the five-year cap on outside experience for the purposes of initial placement on the salary schedule to be final.  Attached to this email message is the official Notice to Employees.  This notice will also be posted at all work locations where notices to employees in the District customarily are posted for a period of thirty (30) consecutive workdays.


NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES
POSTED BY ORDER OF THE
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD

An Agency of the State of California
After a hearing in Unfair Practice Case No. LA-CE-6050-E, Orcutt Educators

Association v. Orcutt Union School District, in which all parties had the right to participate, it
has been found that the Orcutt Union School District (District) violated the Educational
Employment Relations Act (EERA), Government Code section 3540 et seq., by unilaterally
implementing a policy that cre:tted exceptions to the five-year cap on outside experience for
purposes of initial placement on the salary schedule.
As a result of this conduct, we have been ordered to post this Notice and we will:
A. CEASE AND DESIST FROM:
l. Unilaterally changing policies by implementing a policy that created
exceptions to the five-year cap on outside experience for purposes of initial
placement on the salary schedule. ·
2. Interfering with the rights of bargaining unit members to be represented by
the Orcutt Educators Association (Association)
3. Denying the Association its right to represent bargaining unit employees .
B. TAKE THE FOLLOWING AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS DESIGNED TO
EFFECTUATE THE POLICIES OF THE EERA:
Rescind the policy that creates exceptions to the five-year cap on outside
experience for purposes of initial placement on the salary schedule.



ORCUTT UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT