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AB 925: Oppose

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Inserts the State into Employer-Employee Decisions


Summary

  • Makes applicable a costly and unnecessarily high ceiling of employment rights for classified employees at charter schools.
  • The bill specifically requires that classified employees receive sick leave and vacation based on time served in addition to 11 paid holidays, and to require charter schools to create sick and vacation leave policies. It also includes requirements related to personnel files, jury duty, permanent status for employees within one year of employment, written layoff notices, and other leaves of absence requirements.
  • This is an inclusion of labor law into charter school law and inserts the state into what has traditionally been an employer-employee decision.
  • Charter school employees are free to form or join unions and to bargain for greater rights beyond those already provided by law, if deemed necessary.
  • Most of the bills in Sacramento are updated versions of attacks we have seen before. AB 925 is unprecedented.

Impact on Charter Schools

  • Takes away what have traditionally been decisions that are made at the school-site level between employer and employee, and substitutes onerous state rules.
  • Potential to vastly increase costs for charter schools.
  • Essentially, this bill represents re-regulation, or the application of new labor laws to charter schools.

CCSA Action & What You Can (and Did!) Do

  • CCSA was opposed to this bill and advocated against it in the State Capitol
  • Thanks in large part to CCSA member participation in our Action Alert on this bill, AB 925 is not moving forward this year.
  • We must continue to stand firm against attacks to decrease charter school flexibility, and we will need your help again if and when similar bills are introduced in the future.

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