Reinwald v. STATE, DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for defendant’s alleged breach of an agreement that settled a previous unfair labor practices complaint against defendant. The Employment Relations Board (ERB) considered some of the issues, found that defendant had violated the agreement in one respect, and ordered it to remedy that violation. ERB did not award any damages to plaintiff. Thereafter, the trial court ruled that ERB had either primary or exclusive jurisdiction over the dispute and that the court could not award relief that ERB did not or could not award. It therefore granted summary judgment to…