Public Sector Labor Relations Certificate Program

Course Offerings Spring 2013 Semester

 
Basic Public Sector Grievance Arbitration - Click Here to Register.
Course Code: PSLR-GASP-2013-LEC
January 23, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructor: Joan Parker
This seminar is designed to increase the practitioner's skills in preparing for and presenting grievance arbitration class.  Major subjects discussed include preparing for arbitration, the hearing, presenting a case, standards for just cause, evidence, criteria for contact interpretation, remedies, the arbitration decision, and different arbitration systems.  This interactive class also includes a film.
 
Advanced Public Sector Grievance Arbitration - Click Here to Register.
Course Code: PSLR-ADVGASP-2013
February 27, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructor: Joan Parker
This sequence of two courses is designed to increase the practitioner's skills in preparing for and presenting grievance arbitration cases. Major subjects discussed include preparing for arbitration, the hearing, presenting a case, standards for just cause, evidence, criteria for contract interpretation, remedies, the arbitration decision, and different arbitration systems. This interactive class also includes a film.
 
PERC Procedures and Rules - Click Here to Register.
Course Code: PSLR-PRFL2012
March 14, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructor Don Horowitz
This introductory course will review the basic procedures for the filing of petitions and charges with PERC. Topics include filing unfair practice charges; and filing petitions regarding representation issues, scope of negotiations issues, notices of impasse requesting mediation, as well as petitions requesting interest and grievance arbitration.
 
Contract Interpretation - Click Here to Register.
Course Code: PSLR-CISP-2013-LEC
April 12, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructor: Steven Weissman and Philip E. Stern
This class will examine how the meaning and enforceability of contract language negotiated under the N.J. Employer-Employee Relations Act has evolved notaly over the last 40 years, and how court decisions, arbitrators' opinions, and PERC rulings have served to establish a set of principles and guidlelines for negotiating binding contract language in the public sector.  Participants will learn the processes and procedures of enforcing and interpreting contract provisions, from both labor and management perspectives. 
 
Scope of Negotiations - Click Here to Register.
Course Code: PSLR-SNSP-2013-LEC
May 2, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructor: Don Horowitz
This course will address all aspects of the scope of negotiations in New Jersey's public sector. It will trace the legislative, judicial, and PERC developments that have impacted the issues that can and must be the subjects of collective negotiations and grievance arbitration. The class will also examine how PERC decides the scope of negotiations in particular cases.
 
Conflict Resolution - Click Here to Register.
Course Code: PSLR-CRSP-13-LEC
May 22, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructor: Saul Rubinstein
Although labor relationships are rooted in underlying, fundamental conflicts of interest, there exist many techniques for reducing dysfunctional conflict. This class will expose participants to interest-based and other problem-solving techniques that can be used in grievances, at the bargaining table, and every day in the workplace. It also will examine models of labor-management cooperation in the public sector, and participants will learn through role playing and hands-on exercises.