Alaska Public Employees Ass'n v. State

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This case requires that we decide whether the state’s classification plan for state jobs and its assignment of salary ranges to that plan are mandatory subjects of collective bargaining under Alaska’s Public Employment Relations Act (PERA). We conclude that these are not mandatory subjects of collective bargaining. Accordingly, we affirm the decisions of the administrative agency and the court below.

I

Pursuant to the State Personnel Act, AS 39.25, the state must establish a “position classification plan” for all state employees covered by the Act.1 Under such a plan, each…