Member Categories

Membership Categories

Active Membership

Active Membership shall be open to any person employed by a federal, state, county, court, or municipal government, special district or authority or political sub-division, or public corporation or authority, or a public school system, who is assigned direct or support responsibility for that jurisdiction's, agency's or department's human resources and/or employee or labor relations activity exclusively on behalf of management. Active members shall have full voting privileges.

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Affiliate Membership

Affiliate Membership shall be open to attorneys and consultants who are not employees of a public employer but who represent and actively work for the interests of public management and who solely represent and support the interest of management human resources or in labor/employee relations matters. Such membership shall also be open to any staff member of a government league or association who is responsible for providing management human resource or employee or labor relations services to such organization. Affiliate members shall have full voting privileges.

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Retiree Membership

Any former Active or Affiliate Member who has completely retired from work in human resources and labor/employee relations is eligible for retiree membership at a discount on the NPELRA portion of the annual dues at a rate set by the NPELRA Board of Directors. This membership category is for NPELRA membership only and not a joint membership in an affiliated State. Each affiliated State may have their own membership that they administer.

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Student Membership

Student membership is open to upper-level or graduate full-time students (12 units or more) who are in a Human Resources or Industrial Relations Program or related field at an accredited college or university and are not currently working full time in the Labor Relations field.

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