Oregon Statutes 243.696 – Bargaining representatives for executive department state agencies, judicial department and legislative department
(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall represent all state agencies within the executive department which have bargaining units in collective bargaining negotiations with the certified or recognized exclusive representatives of all appropriate bargaining units of exempt, unclassified and classified employees, except those unclassified employees governed by the provisions of ORS § 240.240. The department may delegate such collective bargaining responsibility to operating agencies as may be appropriate.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 243.696
- Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
- executive department: means all statewide elected officers other than judges, and all boards, commissions, departments, divisions and other entities, without regard to the designation given to those entities, that are within the executive branch of government as described in Article III, section 1, of the Oregon Constitution, and that are not:
(a) In the judicial department or the legislative department;
(b) Local governments; or
(c) Special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.112
- judicial department: means the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Oregon Tax Court, the circuit courts and all administrative divisions of those courts, whether denominated as boards, commissions, committees or departments or by any other designation. See Oregon Statutes 174.113
- legislative department: means the Legislative Assembly, the committees of the Legislative Assembly and all administrative divisions of the Legislative Assembly and its committees, whether denominated as boards, commissions or departments or by any other designation. See Oregon Statutes 174.114
(2) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall represent the judicial department in collective bargaining negotiations with the certified or recognized exclusive representatives of all appropriate bargaining units of officers and employees of the courts of this state who are state officers or employees. The Chief Justice may delegate such collective bargaining responsibility to the state court administrator.
(3) The presiding officers of each house of the Legislative Assembly shall represent the legislative department in collective bargaining negotiations with the certified or recognized exclusive representatives of all appropriate bargaining units of employees of the legislative department. The presiding officers may delegate such collective bargaining responsibility to a chief negotiator who, after consultation with the majority party and the minority party caucus leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, shall establish a bargaining team to carry out the collective bargaining negotiations. [1973 c.536 § 10; 1979 c.468 § 25; 1983 c.763 § 64; 2021 c.656 § 1]