Common use of - STATUTE COMPLIANCE Clause in Contracts

- STATUTE COMPLIANCE. The Employer and the Union agree to utilize the impasse procedures for collective bargaining established by Chapter 20, Code of Iowa, and the administrative rules of the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board, with the exceptions of the established timeline. In the event that the Employer and Union fail to reach an agreement by September 1 in the year in which negotiation have commenced mediation shall be requested. In the even the parties are still at impasse on October 1 of the same year the dispute shall be submitted to final and binding arbitration. In the event the dispute is submitted to arbitration the arbitrator’s decision shall be rendered no later than November 1 of the same year. The parties may mutually agree to eliminate or modify the above impasse procedures.