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Mr. Horowitz has been an attorney for the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission for more than 30 years. The Commission administers labor relations laws covering approximately 400,000 employees, their employers, and the unions that represent them. His primary function is to represent the Commission and the PERC Appeal Board, which decides union security issues, before the courts. He has also served as New Jersey counsel to the Port Authority Employment Relations Panel (PAERP), which resolves labor relations disputes involving employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He has appeared in more than 200 cases including more than 50 officially reported decisions.
Mr. Horowitz has presided at settlement conferences and formal hearings in unfair practice, scope of negotiations, representation, and union dues cases and has mediated contract impasses involving all types of public employees. He is a member of the Labor Arbitration Panel of the American Arbitration Association and has presided at public and private sector grievance arbitrations in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Fluent in Spanish, he helped draft an arbitration agreement covering organized migrant mushroom workers.
Mr. Horowitz is a prolific presenter at labor relations conferences and training sessions attended by labor and management officials. He developed and supervises his agency's externship program for third-year law students, and oversees his agency's computer legal research system. |
