§381-1 Definitions. Where used in this chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: “Director” means the director of labor and industrial relations. “Dispute” and “labor dispute” mean any controversy concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to […]
§381-10 Injunction. In the event any public utility employer or any employees of a public utility are found to be violating or failing to comply with the requirements of this chapter or there is reasonable cause to believe that the employer or employees are violating or failing to comply with such requirements, the attorney general, […]
§381-11 Penalties. Any public utility calling or causing a lockout in violation of section 381-9, or otherwise contrary to this chapter, or without giving the notice required by sections 381-3 and 381-8, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or, in the case of an individual, fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more […]
§381-12 Employee need not work involuntarily. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an individual employee to render labor or service without the individual employee’s consent, nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to make the quitting of the individual employee’s labor or service by an individual employee an illegal act. [L […]
§381-13 Labor organizations, collective bargaining. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair, curtail, or destroy the rights of employees and their representatives to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or […]
§381-14 Law as exercise of police power. This chapter shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the State for the protection of the public welfare, safety, prosperity, health, and peace of the people; and all of the provisions of the chapter shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of such purposes. [L […]
§381-2 Duty to avoid lockouts and strikes by collective bargaining. In order to avoid any interruption of public utility service to users, consumers, or the public, any public utility and its employees and their respective representatives shall use the processes of conference and collective bargaining in the settlement of all disputes between the public utility […]
§381-3 Notice of impasse required; effect of collective bargaining agreements. When an impasse is reached in any dispute between a public utility employer and its employees, either party to the dispute claiming the existence of an impasse shall notify the director of labor and industrial relations in writing of the existence of the impasse. The […]
§381-4 Appointment of emergency board. Following receipt of a notice of impasse from either party as specified in section 381-3, the director of labor and industrial relations shall forthwith request each of the parties to designate in writing within five days a person to serve as a member of an emergency board. The designation shall […]
§381-5 Hearings; report. The emergency board shall notify the employer and the employees or their representatives of the time and place for commencement of hearings, which hearings shall commence within five days from the date the board has been constituted. The board shall ascertain the facts of the controversy and shall use its best efforts […]
§381-6 Powers of board; evidence, witnesses; process by mail, etc. The emergency board may hold hearings at any place within the State, subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, compel the production of books and papers, administer oaths, take testimony, and receive evidence. In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any […]
§381-7 Status quo maintained. After the notice required by section 381-3 is filed with the director of labor and industrial relations and until ten days after the report of the emergency board has been filed with the governor, no change in wages, hours, or other terms and conditions of employment prevailing before the actual or […]
§381-8 Procedure where dispute not resolved. For the ten-day period after the report of the emergency board has been filed with the governor, there shall be no strike or lockout. If no agreement is reached within the ten-day period, then at any time within a further period of twenty days, the representative of the employees […]
§381-9 Strikes and lockouts prohibited, when. (a) It shall be unlawful for any employees of a public utility to call a strike or go out on strike causing or threatening to cause an interruption of public utility service, or for any public utility to lock out its employees when the action would cause or threaten […]
