As used in this Chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed:
Definitions
| Agency | Any entity that is so defined in the CMPA. |
| Arbitrator | A neutral person selected by the parties or appointed by the Board or by the Executive Director to resolve disputed labor-management issues by issuing a final and binding decision after presentation by the parties of evidence and argument. |
| Board | The District of Columbia Public Employee Relations Board. |
| Day | Calendar days, unless otherwise specified. |
| Decision-making Personnel | Any Hearing Examiner, employee, or Board Member of the Board who reasonably may be expected to participate in the decision-making process of the Board. |
| Ex parte Communication | Any oral or written communication between decision-making personnel of the Board and an interested party to a proceeding without providing the other parties the opportunity to participate. |
| Fact-finding | The procedure in which one or more netural persons review the positions of the parties in a negotiation impasse with a view towards focusing attention on the issues in dispute and resolving differences as to facts, |
| Impasse | The point in collective bargaining negotiations at which no further progress can be made by the parties without the intervention of a neutral third party, except as otherwise defined by the CMPA for compensation bargaining. |
| Interested Party | Any party or representative of a party involved in a proceeding before the Board or any other person who might be affected by the outcome of a proceeding before the Board. |
| Mediation | The procedure in which a neutral person is selected or appointed to attempt to persuade the parties to a labor-management dispute to compromise or otherwise settle their differences by a solution which they reach themselves. |
| Panel | Either three members of the Board who have been designated to hear a particular matter brought before the Board or a tripartite committee of arbitrators who have been appointed to hear a particular matter. |
| Party | Any person, employee, group of employees, organization, agency, or agency subdivision initiating such a proceeding as authorized by these rules or named as a participant in such a proceeding or whose intervention in a proceeding has been granted or directed under the authority of the Board. |
| Pleadings | Complaint(s), petition(s) appeal(s), request(s) for review or resolution, motion(s), exception(s), briefs(s) and responses to the foregoing. |
| Showing of Interest |
Proof offered to the satisfaction of the Board establishing that a precentage (as defined by the PERB rules) of employees in a proposed or existing unit desires representation by a petitioner seeking exclusive recognition or by another labor organization seeking to intervene in a representation proceeding, or that the unit employees no longer desire representation by a labor organization. |