2766069 Proposed Amendment to Board Rule 558.4

PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RELATIONS BOARD

 

NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING

The Public Employee Relations Board (Board), pursuant to the District of Columbia Government Merit Personnel Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Official Code § 1-605.02(11) (2006 Repl. & 2011 Supp.) and D.C. Official Code §1-617.02(a)-(d) (2006 Repl.)), hereby gives notice of the following proposed rulemaking, which amends chapter 5, Rules of the Public Employee Relations Board, of subtitle B, Government Personnel, of title 6, Personnel, of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).

 

The Board seeks to amend 6 DCMR B § 558.4 to delete the extraneous phrase “the Board’s discretion”.  Pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 2-505(a) (2011 Repl.), and for good cause, the Board intends to take final rulemaking action in not less than seven (7) days from the date of publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.

 

The Board has good cause for providing notice for less than thirty (30) days for the following reasons:

 

(1) The action will make a corrective amendment to 6 DCMR B § 558 that was recently adopted by the Board after a full thirty (30)-day notice period.  No comments of general objection were received in response to that notice and no substantive changes have been made;

 

(2) The action will simply delete a typographical error;

 

Wherefore, the lack of a thirty (30) day-notice period will not adversely affect the public’s right to prepare and submit comments on the proposed amendment to 6 DCMR B § 558.4.   

 

Chapter 5, RULES OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RELATIONS BOARD, of subtitle B, GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL, of title 6, PERSONNEL, of the DCMR:

Section 558, VOLUNTARY AND MANDATORY SETTLEMENT OR ADJUSTMENT OF DISPUTES, subsection 558.4 is amended to read as follows:

 

 

558.4               At the discretion of the Board, all parties filing pleadings before the Board shall submit to the mandatory mediation program established by the Board.

 

Comments on this proposed rulemaking shall be submitted in writing to David B. Washington, Public Employee Relations Board, 1100 4^th Street, S.W., Suite E630, Washington, D.C. 20024, or by sending an email to [e-mail].  Comments can also be sent by fax to [phone] or telephone to [phone].  Comments shall be submitted within seven (7) days of the date of publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.  Copies of the proposed rule may be obtained by writing to Ondray T. Harris, Executive Director, Public Employee Relations Board, 1100 4^th Street, S.W., Suite E630, Washington, DC 20024.