Chapter 381 — Chapter 381

§381-1 Definitions. Where used in this chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Director" means the director of labor and industrial relations. "Dispute" and "labor dispute" mean any controversy concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment…

§381-10 Injunction. In the event any public utility employer or any employees of a public utility are found to be violating or failing to comply with the requirements of this chapter or there is reasonable cause to believe that the employer or employees are violating or failing t…

§381-11 Penalties. Any public utility calling or causing a lockout in violation of section 381-9, or otherwise contrary to this chapter, or without giving the notice required by sections 381-3 and 381-8, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or, in the case of an individual, fined …

§381-12 Employee need not work involuntarily. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an individual employee to render labor or service without the individual employee's consent, nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to make the quitting of the individual …

§381-13 Labor organizations, collective bargaining. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair, curtail, or destroy the rights of employees and their representatives to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through repr…

§381-14 Law as exercise of police power. This chapter shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the State for the protection of the public welfare, safety, prosperity, health, and peace of the people; and all of the provisions of the chapter shall be liberally construed …

§381-2 Duty to avoid lockouts and strikes by collective bargaining. In order to avoid any interruption of public utility service to users, consumers, or the public, any public utility and its employees and their respective representatives shall use the processes of conference and…

§381-3 Notice of impasse required; effect of collective bargaining agreements. When an impasse is reached in any dispute between a public utility employer and its employees, either party to the dispute claiming the existence of an impasse shall notify the director of labor and in…

§381-4 Appointment of emergency board. Following receipt of a notice of impasse from either party as specified in section 381-3, the director of labor and industrial relations shall forthwith request each of the parties to designate in writing within five days a person to serve a…

§381-5 Hearings; report. The emergency board shall notify the employer and the employees or their representatives of the time and place for commencement of hearings, which hearings shall commence within five days from the date the board has been constituted. The board shall ascer…

§381-6 Powers of board; evidence, witnesses; process by mail, etc. The emergency board may hold hearings at any place within the State, subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, compel the production of books and papers, administer oaths, take testimony, and receive evidenc…

§381-7 Status quo maintained. After the notice required by section 381-3 is filed with the director of labor and industrial relations and until ten days after the report of the emergency board has been filed with the governor, no change in wages, hours, or other terms and conditi…

§381-8 Procedure where dispute not resolved. For the ten-day period after the report of the emergency board has been filed with the governor, there shall be no strike or lockout. If no agreement is reached within the ten-day period, then at any time within a further period of twe…

§381-9 Strikes and lockouts prohibited, when. (a) It shall be unlawful for any employees of a public utility to call a strike or go out on strike causing or threatening to cause an interruption of public utility service, or for any public utility to lock out its employees when th…