SB45,1873 Section 1873. 111.85 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,981,15 111.85 (2) (a) Once authorized under sub. (1), a fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement covering public safety employees shall continue in effect, subject to the right of the employer or labor organization concerned to petition the commission to conduct a new referendum. Such petition must be supported by proof that at least 30 percent of the public safety employees in the collective bargaining unit or at least 30 percent of the employees in a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker desire that the fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement be discontinued. Upon so finding, the commission shall conduct a new referendum. If the continuance of the fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement is approved in the referendum by at least the percentage of eligible voting public safety employees required for its initial authorization, it shall be continued in effect, subject to the right of the employer or labor organization to later initiate a further vote following the procedure prescribed in this subsection. If the continuation of the agreement is not supported in any referendum, it is deemed terminated terminates at the termination of the collective bargaining agreement, or one year from the date of the certification of the result of the referendum, whichever is earlier.

SB45,982,2 (b) The commission shall declare any fair-share or maintenance of membership agreement suspended upon such conditions and for such time as the commission decides whenever it finds that the labor organization involved has refused on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation or creed to receive as a member any public safety employee in the collective bargaining unit involved, and the agreement shall be made subject to the findings and orders of the commission. Any of the parties to the agreement, or any public safety employee covered thereby, may come before the commission, as provided in s. 111.07, and petition the commission to make such a finding.

SB45,1874 Section 1874. 111.85 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,982,7 111.85 (4) The commission may, under rules adopted for that purpose, appoint as its agent an official of a state agency or authority whose public safety employees are entitled to vote in a referendum to conduct a referendum provided for herein under this section.

SB45,1875 Section 1875. 111.86 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,982,16 111.86 (2) The division shall charge a state department or, agency, or authority the employer’s share of the cost related to grievance arbitration under sub. (1) for any arbitration that involves one or more employees of the state department or, agency, or authority. Each state department or, agency, or authority so charged shall pay the amount that the division charges from the appropriation account or accounts used to pay the salary of the grievant. Funds received under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (1) (ks).

SB45,1876 Section 1876. 111.88 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,983,5 111.88 (1) If a dispute has not been settled after a reasonable period of negotiation and after the settlement procedures, if any, established by the parties have been exhausted, the representative which has been certified by the commission after an election, or, in the case of a representative of employees specified in s. 111.81 (7) (a) or (ag), has been duly recognized by the employer, as the exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate collective bargaining unit, and the employer, its officers and agents, after a reasonable period of negotiation, are deadlocked with respect to any dispute between them arising in the collective bargaining process, the parties jointly, may petition the commission, in writing, to initiate fact-finding under this section, and to make recommendations to resolve the deadlock.

SB45,1877 Section 1877. 111.90 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,983,9 111.90 (1) Carry out the statutory mandate and goals assigned to a state agency or authority by the most appropriate and efficient methods and means and utilize personnel in the most appropriate and efficient manner possible.

SB45,1878 Section 1878. 111.90 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,983,13 111.90 (2) Manage the employees of a state agency or authority; hire, promote, transfer, assign or retain employees in positions within the agency or authority; and in that regard establish reasonable work rules.

SB45,1879 Section 1879. 111.91 (1w) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,983,23 111.91 (1w) (a) Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c), with regard to a collective bargaining unit that contains at least one frontline worker, matters subject to collective bargaining to the point of impasse are wage rates, consistent with sub. (2), the assignment and reassignment of classifications to pay ranges, determination of an incumbent’s pay status resulting from position reallocation or reclassification, and pay adjustments upon temporary assignment of classified employees to duties of a higher classification or downward reallocations of a classified employee’s position; fringe benefits consistent with sub. (2); hours and conditions of employment.

SB45,984,5 (b) With regard to a collective bargaining unit that contains at least one frontline worker, the employer is not required to bargain on management rights under s. 111.90, except that procedures for the adjustment or settlement of grievances or disputes arising out of any type of disciplinary action referred to in s. 111.90 (3) shall be a subject of bargaining.

SB45,984,7 (c) The employer is prohibited from bargaining on matters contained in sub. (2) with a collective bargaining unit that contains at least one frontline worker.

SB45,1880 Section 1880. 111.91 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,984,11 111.91 (2) (intro.) The employer is prohibited from bargaining with a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1) (g) or with a collective bargaining unit that contains a frontline worker with respect to all of the following:

SB45,1881 Section 1881. 111.91 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,984,15 111.91 (3) (intro.) The employer is prohibited from bargaining with a collective bargaining unit containing a only general employee employees with respect to any of the following:

SB45,1882 Section 1882. 111.91 (3q) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,984,21 111.91 (3q) For purposes of determining compliance with sub. (3), the commission shall provide, upon request, to the employer or to any representative of a collective bargaining unit containing a only general employee employees, the consumer price index change during any 12-month period. The commission may get the information from the department of revenue.

SB45,1883 Section 1883. 111.91 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,985,8 111.91 (4) The administrator of the division, in connection with the development of tentative collective bargaining agreements to be submitted under s. 111.92 (1) (a) 1., shall endeavor to obtain tentative agreements with each recognized or certified labor organization representing employees or supervisors of employees specified in s. 111.81 (7) (a) or (ag) and with each certified labor organization representing employees specified in s. 111.81 (7) (b) to (e) which do not contain any provision for the payment to any employee of a cumulative or noncumulative amount of compensation in recognition of or based on the period of time an employee has been employed by the state.

SB45,1884 Section 1884. 111.92 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,985,12 111.92 (3) (a) Agreements covering a collective bargaining unit specified under s. 111.825 (1) (g) or a collective bargaining unit containing a frontline worker shall coincide with the fiscal year or biennium.

SB45,1885 Section 1885. 111.92 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,985,18 111.92 (3) (b) No agreements covering a collective bargaining unit containing a only general employee employees may be for a period that exceeds one year, and each agreement must coincide with the fiscal year. Agreements covering a collective bargaining unit containing a only general employee employees may not be extended.