This course equips managers and supervisors with a practical understanding of labor relations fundamentals -including past practices, mandatory subjects of bargaining, impact bargaining, management rights, and work rules – so they can lawfully implement workplace changes such as adjusting hours, policies, duties, or discipline. Participants will learn when and how to bargain mid-term, properly handle impact bargaining, document decisions effectively, and exercise assignment rights while minimizing legal risk.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
- What is a past practice?
- What is a mandatory subject of bargaining?
- What is impact bargaining?
- Why are discussions needed with the Union when they are listed in my managements rights clause?
- What is a work rule?
- What type of changes can I implement without bargaining?
- What is mid-term bargaining?
- What are my assignment rights?
SUBJECTS DISCUSSED
- » Limiting employees hours of work
- » Implementing changes in policy
- » Time clocks, assigning new duties
- » Changing hours of work: Implementing changes in your workplace
- » Implementing discipline
- » Impact bargaining strategies
- » How to impact bargaining correctly
- » When to implement changes
- » Documenting to win!
- » Recent court cases on Chiefs right to assign
- » Truthfulness decisions, mandatory subjects of bargaining