KANABEC COUNTY

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 13, 2016

18-WH-179104 (N.L.R.B. Sep. 13, 2016)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
KANABEC COUNTY
Employer
and Case 18-WH-179104
LAW ENFORCEMENT LABOR
SERVICES, INC.
Petitioner
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVE AS BONA FIDE
UNDER SECTION 7(B) OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938
On June 27, 2016, Law Enforcement Labor Services, Inc. (the Petitioner) filed
with the Regional Director for Region 18 of the National Labor Relations Board a
request for certification of representative as bona fide under Section 7(b) of the Fair
Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 207(b).
On July 5, 2016, the Acting Regional Director for Region 18 served on the parties
a Notice to Show Cause why the Board should not grant the request. No response was
filed. As the Region’s investigation revealed that the Petitioner is the recognized
exclusive collective-bargaining representative of the unit employees, the Regional
Director recommended to the Board that the requested certification be issued.
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No party having shown cause why the requested certification should not be
issued, the National Labor Relations Board certifies that Law Enforcement Labor

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The record indicates that the Employer is a public sector employer, and that the State
of Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services issued a certification of exclusive
representative establishing the Petitioner as the exclusive bargaining representative of
the unit employees. The record also includes a copy of the parties’ most recent Labor
Agreement, effective by its terms from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2015.
Services, Inc. is a bona fide representative, for purposes of Section 7(b) of the FLSA, of
the employees of Kanabec County in the following unit:
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All essential non-licensed employees of the Kanabec County Sheriff’s
Department, Mora, Minnesota, who are public employees within the
meaning of Minn. Stat. Sec. 179A.03, subd. 14, excluding supervisory,
confidential and licensed essential employees.
Dated, Washington, D.C., September 13, 2016.
By direction of the Board:
Gary Shinners
__________________________
Executive Secretary

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A certificate of representative as bona fide for purposes of the FLSA does not
necessarily establish the right of the organization so certified to be recognized as the
exclusive bargaining representative of employees within a particular bargaining unit
under the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act. See County of Alameda, 322
NLRB 614 (1996).