Resources
About labor and employment services
You are a vital employer in your community - and we're here to help.
When districts need assistance improving, developing or creating systems or processes to achieve better relationships with employees, we can help!
Workshops - OSBA expertise includes performance management and contract administration. We offer collective-bargaining workshops throughout Oregon - and training on recruitment, selection, staff development; discipline and dismissal; compensation; federal and state labor laws; layoff and recall; leave administration; and a variety of other topics. If you prefer, we'll customize a workshop for your district.
Labor and Employment Conference
- Each year, OSBA presents a comprehensive two-day conference on human resources and labor relations to train novice board members on their responsibilities as employers and prepare seasoned board members for contract negotiations.
Consultation or at-the-table bargaining - We walk you through the entire bargaining process, from setting goals to developing proposals, and will represent you during negotiations. If you need advice or a negotiator, call OSBA.
Contract, proposal analysis
- Our staff analyzes labor contracts and employee and union proposals. We clarify mandatory and permissive subjects of bargaining and identify language that limits management flexibility or impedes student achievement.
Interest-based bargaining - We work with your board and employee team to examine interest-based bargaining models and find that which best suits your district. We train groups wanting to use interest-based-bargaining and can facilitate these processes.
Compensation surveys and other tools
- Our surveys show how your salaries and benefits rank among Oregon schools. SPOT (School Personnel Online Tools subscription service) instantly gives you comparative salary and benefit data including SABA (Salary and Benefit Analyzer), Negotiator's Notebook, a contract language index and more.
Classification studies, job descriptions - We help districts update and ensure that job descriptions accurately reflect the work being performed and comply with ADA law and are correctly placed in your hierarchy.
HR audits, analysis, guidance & studies - We conduct comprehensive analyses of various human resource and labor relation functions for districts and community colleges and recommend improvements. We conduct workplace investigations, provide compensation studies and analysis, and help ensure compliance with human-resources law in areas such as employee leaves, the Americans with Disabilities Act and its amendments and workers' compensation.
Arbitration representation - OSBA specialists can represent you before the Employee Relations Board and in unfair-labor-practice disputes. We will represent you during employee grievance arbitration and assist you with non-renewal of probationary contracts, dismissal of probationary and contract teachers, and other state-agency proceedings.
Price information
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