Assn. of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs v. County of Orange
In January 2010, for the purpose of cutting costs, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (the Department) employed a new classification of civilian employee (the CSA classification[1]) to do office work in the Orange County (the County) jail system. Before this new classification, such work had been exclusively performed by deputy sheriffs. The Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (the Association) sued the County, the Department, and the County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens (collectively, defendants). The Association alleged defendants transferred duties performed by deputy sheriffs to CSA’s (who were assigned to the bargaining unit of another union, the Orange County Employees Association (OCEA)), without having first complied with the meet‑and‑confer obligations required by the Association’s applicable memorandum of understanding with the County and the Meyers‑Milias‑Brown Act (MMBA) (Gov. Code, § 3500 et seq.). (All further statutory references are to the Government Code unless otherwise specified.) OCEA filed a complaint in intervention, seeking, inter alia, a judicial declaration that the CSA classification was lawfully created and properly assigned to OCEA as its bargaining unit.
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