City of Worcester, G1-06-216 (Civil Service, July 23, 2009)(The position of a police officer also requires that the individual is honest and forthcoming. ... Appellant was warned before the completion of the employment application that truth telling was an essential element of the permanent police officer position.) There is a heightened scrutiny that is rightly imposed upon police officers. Police Commr. of Boston y. Civil Serv.

City of Springfield, 24 MLC 50, 54 (1998); City of Worcester, 5 MLC 1108, 1111 (1978). The Law requires that employees share only a community of interest rather than an identity of interest. County of Dukes County/Martha's Vineyard Airport Commission, 25 MLC 153, 155 (1999); Springfield Water and Sewer Commission, 24 MLC 55, 59 (1998)...

City of Worcester v. Labor Relations Commission, 438 Mass 177, 180 (2002). Notwithstanding a public employers prerogative to make certain types of core managerial decisions without prior bargaining, if a managerial decision impacts a mandatory subject of bargaining, then bargaining over the impacts is required. Id. at 185; City of Somerville, 42 MLC 170, 171, MUP-13-2977 (December 30, 2015).

City of Worcester v. Labor Relations Commission, 438 Mass 177, 180 (2002). To decide whether a subject properly falls within the scope of bargaining, the Board balances a public employers legitimate interests in maintaining its managerial prerogative to effectively govern against the impact on employees terms and conditions of employment. Town of Danvers, 3 MLC 1559, 1577, MUP-2292 and 2299 (April 6, 1977).

Id. 20 Similarly, in City of Worcester, Worcester Vocational Teachers Association 21 (WVTA), MTA, et al., 13 MLC 1627, SI-198 (April 23, 1987), the strike petition named 22 various officers and bargaining team members as respondents, including Gerald E. 23 Coleman (Coleman), who was employed by the MTA as a field representative and was 7 CERB Ruling on MTA Motion to Dismiss Case No. SI-23-8911 1 the WVTAs chief spokesman.

City of Worcester, 16 MLC 6810 (October 19, 1989). parties bargaining MLC If the language is ambiguous, 1327, 1333, MUP- the CERB history to determine their intent. Peabody School will review the Committee, 28 19, 21, MUP-2073 (June 21, 2001); Town of Marblehead, 12 MLC at 1670.

close of a hearing, Section 13.04 of the DLRs rules, 456 CMR 13.04, permits a party to seek relief from a hearing officers ruling or order. the DLRs rules, 456 CMR rulings and proceedings. responsibly. orders 13.03(2), grants hearing officers the authority to make all necessary Inherent in this to decide grant the case of authority based is the on ruling on interlocutory appeals under Section applies an abuse of discretion standard. the discretion City

Second, this Commission recognizes wages See City of Worcester, 16 MLC 1327, 1333(1989). Third, the City of Boston, in fact, admitted that it failed to notify the Union about the grade change and refused to bargain with the Union over the change in the grade change. Therefore, the Union has met its burden with regards to a failure to bargain over this change.

event that the officers physician and the physician designated by the Town disagree on the recommended corrective action or treatment, the Board of Selectmen shall arrange for an examination of the officer by a physician selected from a pool of a minimum of five (5) physicians previously approved by the Board of Selectmen and the Charlton Police Alliance, the members of said list to be chosen from doctors practicing in the Town of Chariton or the City

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