§ 13960 Fire District Labor Laws

• •Fire protection districts must follow the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, which is about how workers and bosses talk and make deals together.
• •Fire protection districts must also follow the rules in Chapter 4 of the Labor Code, which is about how workers get paid and treated fairly.
• •These rules make sure firefighters and their bosses work together in a fair way.

A group of firefighters want to talk to their boss about getting better safety gear.

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act says the firefighters and their boss must sit down and talk about it fairly. They can't just ignore each other.