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GA HB1576
Bill
Status
Introduced
3/18/2022
Primary Sponsor
Bee Nguyen
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AI Summary
- Authorizes Georgia public employees to self-organize, form or join labor organizations, and collectively bargain with the state or any political subdivision over wages, rates of pay, hours, and all other terms and conditions of employment
- Establishes the Georgia Public Employees Relations Board, a three-member body appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, to oversee bargaining unit certification, conduct representation elections by secret ballot, and adjudicate unfair labor practice charges
- Prohibits public employees and labor organizations from participating in, instigating, or supporting strikes against public employers, while permitting picketing, bannering, and handbilling; authorizes superior courts to issue injunctions against strikes
- Requires firefighters and law enforcement officers to be treated as separate bargaining units and provides an impasse resolution process including mediation and binding arbitration by a mutually selected impartial labor arbitrator
- Repeals existing Georgia law prohibiting collective bargaining for public employees, including the ban on collective bargaining in education policy (Code Section 20-2-989.10) and the prior article on strikes by public employees, and excludes lawful good faith bargaining from the criminal definition of theft by extortion
Legislative Description
Public officers and employees; terms and conditions of employment; provisions
Last Action
House Second Readers
3/22/2022
Committee Referrals
Industry and Labor3/21/2022
Full Bill Text
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