Welcome to the Department of Industrial Relations
Applicants for membership -- panel of labor arbitrators

Please review the arbitrator panel requirements, and if you have not already done so, complete and submit to us the following materials. Note that all forms are in “fill and print” versions, using Adobe Acrobat.

  1. Arbitrator panel requirements
  2. Arbitration resume form (MS Word symbol Word format) (Adobe Acrobat symbol pdf); (see note below)
  3. Arbitrator information and renewal form;Adobe Acrobat symbol
  4. List of arbitration cases form;Adobe Acrobat symbol
  5. Supplemental information for interest arbitration form Adobe Acrobat symbol (if you wish to be listed for interest arbitration cases);
  6. Sample written award you have issued (preferred), article you have published on a labor relations topic, or other expository writing sample, and  
  7. A statement explaining the scope and duration of the applicant's labor relations experience.

Adobe Acrobat symbol in Acrobat format 

Please mail the information to us at our headquarters address:

State Mediation and Conciliation Service
California Department of Industrial Relations
1515 Clay St., Suite 2206
Oakland, CA 94612

Note: The standard SMCS arbitrator resume form is now available for your use in Microsoft Word. This is a preferable format, as it will allow you to fill it out on the website, and download (save) it to your own computer, for ease in later editing. After you save it, please send us a copy of your resume in Microsoft Word by emailing it to: smcsinfo@dir.ca.gov. When you wish to update your resume, simply edit the saved copy (including the date of the resume) and send it in the same manner.