Who is on the arbitration panel?
A. The public arbitration panel is a tripartite panel. One member is chosen by the public employer, one by the employee organization, and the third, who serves as the neutral chair or public member, is chosen either by mutual agreement of the parties, or by the parties alternately striking names from a list of nine arbitrators provided by PERB, until one name remains. The arbitrators listed by PERB are a select group of labor relations professionals, each of whom must first have been admitted to, and done significant work on, the agency’s ad hoc mediation, fact-finding and voluntary grievance arbitration panels, before being considered for membership on its roster of public interest arbitrators.
