Proposed Amendments to Existing Regulations

The following regulations are eligible for final adoption at the SHELRB meeting on January 15, 2008.
Note: items within brackets [ ] are deletions; items in italics are additions

The following set of proposed regulations was published in the Maryland Register, :

14.30.05 Elections
Authority: State Personnel and Pensions Article, §§3-2A-05—3-2A-07,
Annotated Code of Maryland volume 34, page 21

.03 Election Procedure.

—D. (text unchanged)
Pre-election conference attendance shall be limited to:
The Executive Director and up to two Board staff members; and
Three representatives for each election process participant.
.09-1 Tally of Ballots.

Ballots shall be counted at a place and time prescribed by the Executive Director, or the Executive Director’s designee, and shall be open to the public viewing.
The Executive Director, or the Executive Director’s designee, shall undertake the counting of the ballots. Present at the table, with the Executive Director, or the Executive Director’s designee, for the official tally of the ballots, shall be:

An additional Board staff observer;
One observer from each party to the election; and
One observer from the employer/institution.

14.30.07 Unfair Labor Practices

Authority: State Personnel and Pensions Article, §§3-2A-05—3-2A-07,
Annotated Code of Maryland

.02 Unfair Labor Practices— Employee Organizations.
Except as provided in §B of this regulation, the following acts by an [employer] employee organization, or its agents or representatives, are unfair labor practices:
(text unchanged)