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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 20.9, Code 2001, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 20.9 SCOPE OF NEGOTIATIONS. 1 4 1. The public employer and the employee organization shall 1 5 meet at reasonable times, including meetings reasonably in 1 6 advance of the public employer's budget-making process, to 1 7 negotiate in good faith with respect towages, hours,1 8vacations, insurance, holidays, leaves of absence, shift1 9differentials, overtime compensation, supplemental pay,1 10seniority, transfer procedures, job classifications, health1 11and safety matters, evaluation procedures, procedures for1 12staff reduction, in-service training and otherall matters 1 13 mutually agreed upon, and all of the following issues: 1 14 a. Wages. 1 15 b. Hours. 1 16 c. Vacations. 1 17 d. Insurance, including health insurance benefits for 1 18 retirees. 1 19 e. Holidays. 1 20 f. Leaves of absence. 1 21 g. Shift differentials. 1 22 h. Overtime compensation. 1 23 i. Supplemental pay. 1 24 j. Seniority. 1 25 k. Transfer procedures. 1 26 l. Job classifications. 1 27 m. Health and safety matters. 1 28 n. Evaluation procedures. 1 29 o. Procedures for staff reduction. 1 30 p. In-service training.Negotiations shall also include1 31terms1 32 q. Terms authorizing dues checkoff for members of the 1 33 employee organizationand grievance. 1 34 r. Grievance procedures for resolving any questions 1 35 arising under the agreement, which. 2 1 2. The agreement of the parties shall be embodied in a 2 2 written agreement and signed by the parties. 2 3 3. If an agreement provides for dues checkoff, a member's 2 4 dues may be checked off only upon the member's written request 2 5 and the member may terminate the dues checkoff at any time by 2 6 giving thirty days' written notice.Such2 7 4. The obligation to negotiate in good faith under this 2 8 section does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or 2 9 make a concession. 2 10 5. Nothing in this section shall diminish the authority 2 11 and power of the department of personnel, board of regents' 2 12 merit system, Iowa public broadcasting board's merit system, 2 13 or any civil service commission established by constitutional 2 14 provision, statute, charter, or special act to recruit 2 15 employees, prepare, conduct, and grade examinations, rate 2 16 candidates in order of their relative scores for certification 2 17 for appointment or promotion or for other matters of 2 18 classification, reclassification, or appeal rights in the 2 19 classified service of the public employer served. 2 20 6. All retirement systems shall be excluded from the scope 2 21 of negotiations. For the purposes of this section, 2 22 "retirement systems" includes only the systems providing 2 23 retirement payments pursuant to chapters 97, 97A, 97B, 410, 2 24 411, and 412, and to sections 602.1611, 602.11115, and 2 25 602.11116, and does not include health insurance benefits for 2 26 retirees mandated as a subject of negotiations by subsection 2 27 1, paragraph "d". 2 28 EXPLANATION 2 29 This bill amends the mandatory subjects of bargaining for 2 30 public employees under Code section 20.9. The bill also 2 31 reorganizes the existing Code language. 2 32 The bill specifies that insurance benefits for retirees are 2 33 included within the general topic of insurance as a mandatory 2 34 subject of bargaining for public employees. The other 2 35 mandatory subjects of bargaining remain the same, but are now 3 1 placed in individually lettered subsections. 3 2 The bill provides that the specification of insurance 3 3 benefits for retirees as a mandatory subject of bargaining 3 4 under subsection 1 does not violate the exclusion from 3 5 negotiations in subsection 6 of retirement systems, by 3 6 defining retirement systems to include only retirement 3 7 payments made pursuant to the systems in certain chapters and 3 8 sections of the Code, and to specifically exclude health 3 9 insurance benefits for retirees. 3 10 LSB 1826HH 79 3 11 jj/gg/8
Text: HF00204 Text: HF00206 Text: HF00200 - HF00299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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