Fort Dodge Community School District v. Iowa Public Employment Relations Board

McDonald, j.

The Fort Dodge Community School District (“the District”) appeals the district court’s ruling affirming the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board’s (“PERB”) ruling in a negotiability dispute arising under the Iowa Public Employment Relations Act (“PERA” or “the Act”), Iowa Code chapter 20 (2011). The subject of the dispute is whether the District’s proposal to eliminate severance pay provisions from several collective bargaining agreements (“CBAs”) is a topic of mandatory or permissive bargaining under the Act.

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The District is a public employer within the meaning of PERA. See…