New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 1 - ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Chapter 20 - HEARINGS BEFORE THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS APPEAL BOARD
Subchapter 2 - DEFINITIONS
Section 1:20-2.1 - Definitions

(a) "Appeal Board" means the Public Employment Relations Commission Appeal Board established by 34:13A-5.6 to consider complaints concerning the amount of fees paid by nonmembers who pay a representation fee in lieu of dues.

(b) "Demand and return system" means the procedure established and maintained pursuant to 34:13A-5.6 by a majority representative to provide a public employee who pays a representation fee in lieu of dues the right to demand and receive from the majority representative that portion of the fee returnable under the circumstances as described by 34:13A-5.5(c).

(c) "Employer" means, for purposes of these rules only, the public employer which is signatory to the agreement requiring payment by the petitioner nonmember of representation fee in lieu of dues.

(d) "Nonmember" means a public employee who is not a member of the majority representative which represents the employee's collective negotiations unit but who pays a representation fee in lieu of dues to the majority representative.

(e) "Petition" means the document described in N.J.A.C. 1:20-6 and which initiates a complaint before the Appeal Board about the amount of representation fee in lieu of dues.

(f) "Petitioner" means the nonmember who is filing a petition.

(g) "Representation fee" means the fee in lieu of dues defined in 34:13A-5.5, deducted from a nonmember's wages or salary and paid to the majority representative of the nonmember's unit.

(h) "Respondent" means the majority representative which represents the petitioner's collective negotiations unit and which receives petitioner's representation fee.