Kansas Statutes 44-824. Rights and duties of certified or recognized employee organizations
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 44-824
- Agricultural employer: shall mean any employer engaged in cultivating the soil or in raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity including custom harvesting operators operating wholly within the state of Kansas, and employers engaged in operating stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, furbearing animal, wildlife and truck farms, plantations, ranches, feedlots, ranges, orchards, or other similar agricultural enterprises and who employed six or more employees for 20 or more days of any calendar month in the six months preceding the filing for recognition by such employees as an employee organization as provided for in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
- Employee organization: means any organization which includes employees of an agricultural employer and which has as one of its primary purposes representing such employees in dealings with that agricultural employer over conditions of employment and grievances. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
- Recognized employee organization: means an employee organization which has been certified by election as representing a majority of the employees of an appropriate unit. See Kansas Statutes 44-819
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
(a) An agricultural employer shall extend to a certified or formally recognized employee organization the right to represent the employees, of the appropriate unit involved in meet and confer proceedings and in the settlement of grievances, and also shall extend the right to unchallenged representation status, consistent with subsection (d) of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 44-823, during the twelve (12) months following the date of certification or formal recognition.
(b) A certified or formally recognized employee organization shall be obligated to fully and equally represent all employees of the appropriate unit involved whether said employees do or do not have membership in the employee organization.