Public employment: notifications and right of intervention.

Assembly Member Caloza's public employment legislation establishes new notification requirements and intervention procedures for civil actions involving public employee labor disputes in California. The measure requires plaintiffs seeking injunctive relief against public employee strikes or work stoppages to notify the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) via electronic mail when filing civil actions or temporary restraining order applications.

The bill grants PERB authority to intervene in civil actions stemming from labor disputes involving public employees under its jurisdiction when cases implicate the interpretation or enforcement of PERB-administered statutes. These notification and intervention provisions maintain existing requirements for plaintiffs to exhaust administrative remedies before pursuing court action when mandated by law.

For cases involving trial court employees, the legislation directs the Judicial Council to create a panel of court of appeal justices qualified to hear injunction requests related to strikes and work stoppages. Under the new procedures, a single justice from outside the court of appeal district where the action originates would be assigned to hear these matters in superior court, with any appeals to be heard in the original filing district.