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D.C. Municipal Regulations (Last Updated: September 13, 2017) |
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Title 6. PERSONNEL |
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SubTilte 6-B. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL |
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Chapter 6-B5. RULES OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RELATIONS BOARD |
Section 6-B599. DEFINITIONS
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599.1As used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed:
Agency - Any entity that is so defined in the CMPA.
Arbitrator - A neutral person selected by the parties or appointed by the Board or by the Executive Director to resolve disputed labor-management issues by issuing a final and binding decision after presentation by the parties of evidence and argument.
Days - Calendar days, unless otherwise specified.
Board - The District of Columbia Public Employee Relations Board.
Decision-making personnel - Any Hearing Examiner, employee, or Board Member of the Board who reasonably may be expected to participate in the decision-making process of the Board.
Ex parte Communication - Any oral or written communication between decision-making personnel of the Board and an interested party to a proceeding without providing the other parties the opportunity to participate.
Fact-finding - The procedure in which one or more neutral persons review the positions of the parties in a negotiation impasse with a view towards focusing attention on the issues in dispute and resolving differences as to facts.
Impasse - The point in collective bargaining negotiations at which no further progress can be made by the parties without the intervention of a neutral third party, except as otherwise defined by the CMPA for compensation bargaining.
Interested party - Any party or representative of a party involved in a proceeding before the Board; or any other person who might be affected by the outcome of a proceeding before the Board.
Issuance - The date of service on one or more parties of a decision, order, or correspondence from the Board.
Mediation - The procedure in which a neutral person is selected or appointed to attempt to persuade the parties to a labor-management dispute to compromise or otherwise settle their differences by a solution which they reach themselves.
Panel - Either three members of the Board who have been designated to hear a particular matter brought before the Board or a tripartite committee of arbitrators who have been appointed to hear a particular matter.
Party - Any person, employee, group of employees, organization, agency, or agency subdivision initiating such a proceeding as authorized by these rules or named as a participant in such a proceeding or whose intervention in a proceeding has been granted or directed under the authority of the Board.
Pleadings - Complaint(s), petition(s), appeal(s), request(s) for review or resolution, motion(s), exception(s), brief(s), and responses to the foregoing.
Pro se individual – A party who is not represented by legal counsel nor represented in proceedings before the Board by a representative from a labor organization.
Showing of Interest - Proof offered to the satisfaction of the Board establishing that a percentage (as defined by these rules) of employees in a proposed or existing unit desires representation by a petitioner seeking exclusive recognition or by another labor organization seeking to intervene in a representation proceeding, or that the unit employees no longer desire representation by a labor organization.