State Employees Attorneys Guild v. Bush

The State Employees Attorneys Guild seeks review of a final order of the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC) dismissing its petition to represent certain attorneys employed in the state’s Selected Exempt Service. In a recommended order entered following an evidentiary hearing, the hearing officer had concluded that a separate bargaining unit in the Selected Exempt Service for attorneys remained appropriate, and that the petition should be granted. Relying on the adoption by the legislature after the entry of the hearing officer’s recommended order of chapter 2001-43, Laws of Florida…