SF 2194 — Merit system for PERB’s administrative law judges
FLOOR ACTION:
SF 2194 makes administrative law judges (ALJs) appointed or employed by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) subject to the merit system. Currently, these ALJs are at-will and do not have the same protections as other ALJs in state government. For example, ALJs in the Department of Inspection & Appeals are covered by the merit system (10A.801). Since the ALJs at PERB hear cases regarding grievances or discipline of merit employees, those types of cases involving PERB’s ALJs will be heard by an administrative law judge employed by the Department of Inspections & Appeals.
[2/22: 39-10 (Behn, Breitbach, Chapman, Guth, Kapucian, Rozenboom, Schneider, Schultz, Sinclair, Zaun “no”; Feenstra excused)]