Unilateral changes in the work year
Public Employment Relations Board, Case U-4294
The unilateral reduction of the school district’s administrator’s work year from 11 to 10 months (but requiring the performance of essentially the same service) was held to be a violation of the district’s duty to negotiate (the administrators constituted a “negotiating unit”) and back pay and restoration of the 11-month work year was ordered by PERB (Case U-4144, 1980).
In contrast, a PERB hearing officer held that the unilateral change in a district’s work day for teachers from 8 am to 3 pm to 8:30 am to 3:30 pm following good faith bargaining to impasse on the issue was not a violation of the Taylor Law even though the impasse had not been resolved at the time of the change by the district.