Printable Format75-4328. Recognition of right of employee organization to represent employees. (a) A public employer shall extend to a certified or formally recognized employee organization the right to represent the employees of the appropriate unit involved in meet and confer proceedings and in the settlement of grievances, and also shall extend the right to unchallenged representation status, consistent with subsection (d) of K.S.A. 75-4327, during the twelve (12) months following the date of certification or formal recognition.
History: L. 1971, ch. 264, ยง 8; March 1, 1972.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
"The Kansas Public Employer-Employee Relations Law," Raymond Goetz, 28 K.L.R. 243, 273 (1980).
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Cited in determining that employees' due process rights can be waived by memorandum of agreement if the agreement provides for protection and enforcement of employees' rights. Gorham v. City of Kansas City, 225 Kan. 369, 370, 376, 590 P.2d 1051.