City of Cambridge v. Civil Service Commn, 43 Mass.App.Ct. 300, 303-305, rev.den., 428 Mass. 1102 (1997) (emphasis added) However, the governing statute, G.L.c.31,2(b), also gives the Commissions de novo review broad scope to evaluate the legal basis of the appointing authority's action; it is not necessary for the Commission to find that the appointing authority acted arbitrarily and capriciously. Id.

A public employer violates Section 10(a)(5) of the Law when it transfers work performed by bargaining unit members to non-bargaining unit personnel without giving its employees exclusive collective bargaining opportunity to bargain to resolution or impasse. (1996); affd sub nom., Cambridge Police representative prior notice and City of Cambridge, 23 MLC 28, 36 Superior Officers Relations Commission, 47 Mass. App. Ct. 1108 (1999).

E.g., City of Cambridge v. Civil Service Commn, 43 Mass.App.Ct. 300, 303-305, 682 N.E.2d 923, rev.den., 428 Mass. 1102, 687 N.E.2d 642 (1997) (Commission may not substitute its judgment for a valid exercise of appointing authority discretion, but the Civil Service Law gives the Commission some scope to evaluate the legal basis of the appointing authoritys action, even if based on a rational ground.).

See, e.g., City of Cambridge v. Civil Service Commn, 43 Mass. 300, 303 (1997); Gallo v. City of Lynn, 23 MCSR 348 (2010). Since there is some discretion as to what, and for how long, a prosecutor may be required to make disclosure of indicia about a police officers 3 I reach this conclusion, despite Sgt. Robichaus subsequent knee-jerk reaction in kicking the Ford Escort as he left home later in the day, and Mrs.

City of Cambridge v. Civil Service Commission, 43 Mass. App. Ct. 300, 304 (1997). Reasonable justification means the Appointing Authoritys actions were based on adequate reasons supported by credible evidence, when weighed by an unprejudiced mind, guided by common sense and by correct rules of law. Selectmen of Wakefield v. Judge of First Dist. Ct. of E. Middlesex, 262 Mass. 477, 482 (1928). Commissioners of Civil Service v.

City of Cambridge v. Civil Service Commission, 43 Mass. App. Ct. 300, 304 (1997). The issue for the Commission is "not whether it would have acted as the appointing authority had acted, but whether, on the facts found by the commission, there was reasonable justification for the action taken by the appointing authority in the circumstances found by the commission to have existed when the Appointing Authority made its decision." Watertown v.

City of Cambridge v. Civil Service Commn, 43 Mass.App.Ct. 300, 304, rev.den., 426 Mass. 1102 (1997). See also City of Leominster v. Stratton, 58 Mass.App.Ct. 726, 728, rev.den., 440 Mass. 1108 (2003); Police Dept of Boston v. Collins, 48 Mass.App.Ct. 408, 411, rev.den., 726 N.E.2d 417 (2000); McIsaac v. Civil Service Commn, 38 Mass App.Ct. 473, 477 (1995); Town of Watertown v. Arria, 16 Mass.App.Ct. 331, rev.den., 390 Mass. 1102 (1983).

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