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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="22-206" title_number="22" title_name="Public Employee Relations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Rights and Duties of Employees, Public Employers, and Exclusive Representatives">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A public employer and its officers, employees, agents, or representatives are prohibited from engaging in any unfair labor practice, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of their rights under this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>dominating, interfering with, contributing financial or other support to, or assisting in the formation, existence, or administration of any employee organization;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>granting administrative leave to employees to attend employer sponsored or supported meetings or events relating to an election under Subtitle 4 of this title, unless the public employer grants employees at least the same amount of administrative leave to attend labor organization sponsored or supported meetings or employee meetings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>discriminating in hiring, tenure, or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in an employee organization;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>discharging or discriminating against an employee because of the signing or filing of an affidavit, petition, or complaint, or giving information or testimony in connection with matters under this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>failing to provide all employee organizations involved in an election the same rights of access as required by the Board through regulation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>engaging in surveillance of union activities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>refusing to bargain in good faith;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>failing to meet an established negotiation deadline, unless a written agreement between the public employer and the exclusive representative provides otherwise;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>engaging in a lockout; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>spending public money to contract with, using public resources to contract with, or providing assistance to an individual or group for a negative campaign against efforts by employees of a public employer or an employee organization to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>gain or retain collective bargaining rights; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>certify an employee organization as an exclusive representative.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Employee organizations and their agents or representatives are prohibited from engaging in any unfair labor practice, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of their rights under this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>causing or attempting to cause a public employer to discriminate in hiring, tenure, or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in an employee organization;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>engaging in, inducing, or encouraging any person to engage in a strike;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>interfering with the statutory duties of the State or a public employer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>refusing to bargain in good faith; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>not fairly representing employees in collective bargaining or in any other matter in which the employee organization has the duty of fair representation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
