Title 34, Title 34: LABOR AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION

34:13B-16 Definitions. 16. (a) The term "public utility" shall include autobusses; bridge companies; canal companies; electric light, heat and power companies; ferries and steamboats; gas companies; pipeline companies; railroads; sewer companies; steam and water power companies; …

34:13B-17. Severability If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this act, or of any supplement thereto or amendment thereof, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall for any reason be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such …

34:13B-18. Sixty-day notice of intention to strike It shall be unlawful for any employee or representative of any craft, class or group of employees of a public utility to institute, participate in or aid in the conduct of a strike or work stoppage or for a public utility or any …

34:13B-19. Strike after seizure After the Governor has taken or shall take possession of any plant, equipment or facility of any public utility for the use and operation by the State of New Jersey in the public interest, pursuant to the provisions of section thirteen of the act w…

34:13B-2. Collective bargaining Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. The majority of any craft or class of employees shall have the right to determine who shall be the representative of the craft or cla…

34:13B-2.1 Construction contractors, employees, OSHA certification, payment of rate for trade, craft; required on public utility work. 2. Any construction contractor contracting with a public utility to engage in construction work on a public utility shall employ on the site only…

34:13B-20. Board of arbitration; submission to Board Within ten days after the Governor has taken or shall take possession of any plant, equipment or facility of any public utility pursuant to the provisions of section thirteen of the act which this act supplements, or within ten…

34:13B-21. Hearing; powers of Board; refusal to testify or produce evidence The Board of Arbitration shall promptly proceed to arbitrate the matters submitted to it. It shall promptly hold hearings and shall have the power to administer oaths and compel by subpoena the attendance…

34:13B-23. Findings and award; duration of order; retroactive effect The findings, decision and order of the Board of Arbitration shall, unless modified or reversed on appeal, be conclusive and binding upon all of the parties to the dispute and such order of such board shall be c…

34:13B-24. Lockout, strike or work stoppage; penalty Any lockout, authorized or engaged in, by any public utility in violation of any provision of this act, or any failure or refusal by a public utility to abide by the terms of any decision or order made by any board of arbitrati…

34:13B-25. Violations Any officer or agent of any public utility or labor union, or any person performing the duties of such officer or agent, who shall willfully violate, or aid and abet the violation of any of the provisions of this act, or attempt to do so, shall, for each suc…

34:13B-26. Injunctive relief; declaratory or other relief Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: The commissioner, director or other chief administrative officer of any department or agency of the Government of the State of New Jersey through which the p…

34:13B-27. Written findings and decision; factors to be considered (a) It shall be the duty of each board of arbitration appointed pursuant to chapter forty-seven of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven to make written findings of fact and to promulgate a written…

34:13B-28. Repeal Section six of chapter forty-seven of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven is repealed. L.1949, c. 308, p. 997, s. 2.

34:13B-3. Additional powers to State Board of Mediation There is hereby included in the functions of the State Board of Mediation the following responsibility: (A) The determination of who are the representatives of any given craft or class of employees of a utility; which employ…

34:13B-4. Contracts between a utility and its employees All labor agreements hereafter entered into between the management of a utility and its employees or any craft or class of employees shall be reduced to writing and continue for a period of not less than one year from the da…

34:13B-5. Written notice of changes desired in existing labor contracts required In the case of all existing labor contracts, agreements or understandings which do not provide for at least a sixty-day notice of desired changes and which contracts, agreements or understandings ter…

34:13B-6. Expired labor contracts; written notice of desired changes required Whenever at the time of the passage of this act a labor contract between a utility and its employees has existed and has expired, and where services are still being performed by the said employees under…

34:13B-7. Change in terms of employment not the subject of contract; notice of changes desired Whenever, after the passage of this act, a situation exists in any utility whereby employees are rendering services under terms and conditions which were not at the time of the passage …