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Council’s Action to Affirmatively Elect to Continue to Operate Under the County’s Local Labor Management Relations Board
Recommended Action
I move that Council affirmatively elect to continue to operate under the County’s Local Labor Management Relations Board, and direct staff to submit this decision to the County’s Labor Management Relations Board for its submittal to the State Public Employees Labor Relations Board before December 31, 2023.
County Manager's Recommendation
The County Manager recommends that Council take affirmative action on this item as presented.
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In the 2020 Regular Legislative Session, the New Mexico State Legislature passed, and the Governor signed, House Bill 364 which made changes to the State’s Public Employee Bargaining Act (“PEBA”). In 2020, Council made changes to the County’s Labor Management Relations Ordinance to comply with the new state requirements and further authorized the continued existence and operation of County’s Labor Management Relations Board.
Pursuant to PEBA, the County’s Labor Management Relations Board shall continue to exist after December 31, 2021, only if it has submitted to the State Public Employees Labor Relations Board an affirmation that: “(1) the public employer subject to the local board has affirmatively elected to continue to operate under the local board; and (2) each labor organization representing employees of the public employer subject to the local board has submitted a written notice to the board that it affirmatively elects to continue to operate under the local board.” NMSA 1978 §10-7-E-10(D).
The affirmation is required to be submitted to the State Public Employees Labor Relations Board by each local board between November 1 and December 31 of each odd-numbered year. A local board that fails to timely submit the affirmation required by this subsection shall cease to exist as of January 1 of the next even-numbered year.
Alternatives
The Council’s affirmation is necessary ...
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