Academic Personnel & HRIS
Employee & Labor Relations
Unit Responsibilities
The Employee Relations unit is responsible for providing a variety of services to the campus community that develop and maintain positive, respectful, and harmonious working relationships between faculty, staff, and managers with the goal of continuously developing and perpetuating an environment where faculty, staff, managers, students and community participants are provided opportunities to recognize and fulfill their full potential.
Specific services provided by the unit include, but are not limited to:
- Interpreting, applying and providing counsel and advice to a variety of campus constituents regarding the provisions of faculty and staff collective bargaining unit agreements, the Higher Education Employee-Employer Relations Act (HEERA), Education Code, University Practice Directives and Guidelines, Executive Orders and technical guidance provided through the Office of the Chancellor, and State and Federal laws and regulations with respect to matters outlined above.
- Providing counsel, advice, and conflict resolution with respect to work related difficulties, including the resolution of grievances and complaints under the collective bargaining unit agreements and employment related litigation.
- Developing and maintaining positive working relationships between all groups of employees and their representatives.
- Coordinating campus responses to State Personnel Board and Public Employee Relations Board Hearings.
- Providing counsel and advice with respect to progressive discipline and performance improvement.
- Monitoring and coordinating Union release time.
- Responding to requests for information.
