PROCEDURES FOR CONDUCTING NEGOTIATIONS Either party may request negotiations for a successor Agreement by issuing a notice to negotiate to the other party between one hundred twenty (120) and ninety (90) days prior to the expiration of this Agreement. The State Employment Relations Board will also be notified of the intent to open negotiations at this time. Within fifteen (15) days of receipt of said notice, representatives of the parties shall meet and submit proposals for the successor Agreement. Said proposals shall be comprehensive in nature and no additional issues shall be introduced after the first session without mutual agreement. Subsequent bargaining sessions shall be set at times and dates as are mutually agreed to by the teams. Negotiation teams will be limited to five (5) members each. Both sides may agree to change this size by mutual agreement. Negotiation sessions shall be conducted in executive session; however, this does not prohibit the flow of information to either party’s constituency. The style of bargaining shall be mutually decided by the parties prior to negotiations. Upon request of either bargaining team, a bargaining session may be recessed to permit a caucus. When negotiations are conducted during regular school hours, release time shall be provided for the Association’s bargaining team. (Reference: Article 18) There shall be three (3) signed copies of the final agreement. One (1) copy shall be retained by the Board, one (1) by the Association, and one (1) shall be submitted to the State Employment Relations Board. As tentative agreement is reached on each issue, it shall be so noted and initialed by each party. When consensus is reached covering the areas under discussion, the proposed Agreement shall be reduced to writing as a tentative agreement and submitted to the Association and the Board for approval. Following approval by the Association and Board, a contract shall be entered into by both parties. The Association and the Board agree to abide by the terms of the Agreement. The final Agreement, as adopted by the Board and ratified by the Association, will be printed and presented within thirty (30) days. The cost of such printing, including labor and material shall be borne by the Board In the event an agreement is not reached after forty-five (45) days from the first bargaining session, either of the parties shall have the option of requesting the assistance of a federal mediator under the guidelines of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. In the event that the services of a mediator are called upon, the mediation process will last twenty-one
Definition and Procedure 26.1.1 For the purposes of this PPP Agreement, "
COMPLETION OF MEET AND NEGOTIATION 24.1 During the term of this Agreement, the Association expressly waives and relinquishes the right to meet and negotiate and agrees that the District shall not be obligated to meet and negotiate with respect to any subject or matter whether referred to or covered in this Agreement or not, even though each subject or matters may not have been within the knowledge or contemplation of either or both the District or the Association at the time they met and negotiated on and executed this Agreement, and even though such subjects or matters were proposed and later withdrawn.
Approval Procedure 1. To request approval to receive shared leave hours, an employee or their representative must submit the following documentation to Human Resource Services:
NEGOTIATIONS PROCEDURE Table of Contents
Introduction and definitions 1.1 This agreement (the “Grant Agreement”) consists of 23 Clauses, 2 Schedules and 2
PROJECT DEFINITIONS The following capitalized terms have the meanings assigned below for purposes of Exhibits A and B.
COMPLETION OF MEET AND NEGOTIATE During the term of this Agreement, the parties waive and relinquish the right to meet and negotiate except as provided below and elsewhere in this Agreement, and agree that they shall not be obligated to meet and negotiate with respect to any subject or matter referred to or covered in this Agreement, nor on those subjects or matters which were proposed by either party and later withdrawn. Negotiations may be reopened at any time on any section of this contract on petition of either party and with the concurrence of the second party.
General Procedure (a) At each Closing, and effective as of each Closing Date, each party shall deliver to the party entitled to receipt thereof the documents required to be delivered pursuant to Article VII and such other documents, instruments and materials (or complete and accurate copies thereof, where appropriate) as may be reasonably required in order to effectuate the intent and provisions of this Agreement, including the applicable Appendix D, and all such documents, instruments and materials shall be satisfactory in form and substance to counsel for the receiving party.
Scope, Consultations, Mediation and Conciliation Disputes between the Contracting Parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Agreement shall, as far as possible, be settled amicably or through consultations, mediation or conciliation.
