Board of Higher Education, 32 MLC 181, 184 (2006) (engineering no professor's assignment to teach all math courses and engineering courses was adverse action); Suffolk County Sheriffs Department, 27 MLC (2001) (employer's failure to consider employee 155, 159 for favorable and prestigious assignment constituted adverse action); Town of Holbrook, 15 MLC 1221, 1225 (1988) (sergeants permanent assignment to desk duty constituted adverse action); Boston

Suffolk County Sheriffs Department, 27 MLC 155, 159, MUP-1498 (June 4, 2001).

This due diligence was exercised at the request of this Commissioner, who found the Appellant, currently an employee of the Suffolk County Sheriffs Department, to be a principled, straightforward individual who 3 would have been a valuable addition to the Boston Police Department had it not been for his admirable decision to be with his wife and child for six (6) months while they were stuck in Brazil.

See Suffolk County Sheriff's Department, 28 MLC 253 (2002). Therefore, the City has violated Section 10(a)(5) and derivatively Section 10(a)(1) of the Law.

Suffolk In Suffolk County Sheriff's Department, a Unions claim was not time-barred when the claim was filed 14 months after the Union first learned of the alleged violation. Id. In that case, an Employer discriminated against an officer by refusing to assign that officer to a position to which he was entitled in order to punish him for his union activities. Id.

Suffolk County Sheriffs Department, 28 MLC 253, 259 (2002) (citing Service Employees International Union, 431 Mass. at 715). Second, direct dealing undermines employees belief that 20 the union actually possesses the power of exclusive representation to which the statute 21 entitles it. Suffolk County Sheriffs Department, 15 28 MLC at 259; Service Employees Decision (cont'd) | International Union, 431 Mass. at 715.

See Suffolk County Sheriff's Department, 27 MLC 155, 159 (2001). A letter that counsels employees about their job duties and responsibilities, without more, does not constitute adverse action sufficient to satisfy the requisite element of a prima facie case of unlawful discrimination. Suffolk County Sheriff's Department, 27 MLC 155 (2001).

following: Incident reports; Investigation Reports; Investigator notes; written witness statements; reports of substance of oral witness statements; reports/affidavits filed in application for criminal complaint; reports/affidavits filed in application for arrest warrant; all letters, correspondence, emails, faxes, notices, memoranda, notes of calls, and communications of any kind among or between the Suffolk County District Attorneys Office, the Suffolk