LABOR & EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Over the past 25 years, the workplace has taken on several new dimensions - there ls greater diversity among employees and the integration of generations X, Y, and Z. More importantly, the financial resources to meet growing compensation obligations and to manage the increasingly diverse workforce are rapidly dwindling.

To address these issues, employers must rethink how labor negotiations are conducted, how disciplinary processes are implemented, and how employee and union grievances can be expeditiously resolved. lt takes an integrated rather than a piecemeal approach to develop collaborative solutions to labor and employee relations issues. Linda's extensive and broad-based experience, including extensive mediation training, can assist agencies in bringing together employees and managers to resolve complex issues.

Linda’s experience includes:

• Serving as chief spokesperson and strategist on behalf of management in negotiating numerous collective bargaining agreements
  
  
• Advising on disciplinary, grievance, and contract interpretation matters including representation in mediations and arbitrations
  
  
• Serving as a hearing officer/arbitrator in disciplinary and grievance matters and advising Civil Service and Personnel Commissions
  
  
• Representing employers before the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in unfair labor practice and unit determination matters
  
  
• Representation in court-litigated matters involving challenges to administrative actions including discipline and grievance arbitration decisions pursuant to CCP § 1085 and CCP § 1094.6