Houlihan, Kraft & Cardinal 229 Harvard Street Brookline, MA 02446 Appearance for Respondent: Jay S. Koplove, Esq. Boston Housing Authority 52 Chauncy Street Boston, MA 02111 Commissioner: Paul M.

(emphasis added) See also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021) (analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law).

See also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021) (analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law). Law enforcement officers are vested with considerable power and discretion and must be held to a high standard of conduct: Police officers are not drafted into public service; rather they compete for their positions.

Id See also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 2021) (analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law).Even if the appointing authority did not meet the burden of proof for bypass on every reason given, its discretion must be upheld if any reason is sufficient, standing alone, to justify the bypass. There is no requirement that the appointing authority prove every reason.

See also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021) (analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law). 11 Law enforcement officers are vested with considerable power and discretion and must be held to a high standard of conduct: Police officers are not drafted into public service; rather they compete for their positions.

Town of Brookline, 20 MLC 1570, 1594 (1994). CERB also assesses the likelihood of further movement by either party, and whether they have exhausted all possibility of compromise. City of Worcester, 39 MLC 271 (2012).

SUP-4075, 25 MLC 201, 205 (1999); Town of Brookline, Nos. MUP-8426, MUP-8478, MUP-8479, 20 MLC 1570, 1592 (1994)); Town of Plymouth, No. MUP-1465, 26 MLC 220, 223 (2000).

See U Ex 6; Boston School Committee, 35 MLC 277, 287 (2008); Town of Brookline, 20 MLC 1570, 1595 (1994) (Health insurance is a Department of Labor Relations/ Commonwealth Employment Relations Board December 22, 2011 Page 3 mandatory subject of bargaining which should have take place at the main table.); City of Boston, 31 MLC 25, 32 (2004).

See Town of Brookline, 20 MLC 1570 (1994). The Union hereby demands that you defer any change and fulfill your obligation to bargain with the Union during contract negotiations concerning such a change. If you fail to do so you will force the Union into filling an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) and taking any other legal action deemed appropriative. I look forward to working with the University on this matter. Sincerely, Ronald S.

City of Leominster, 23 MLC 62 (1996) See also Town of Brookline, 20 MLC 1570, 1595-96 )1994); New Bedford School Committee, 8 MLC 1472, 1478 (1981); Town of Hudson, 25 MLC 143, 148 (1999). 10 Even if the BPHC had a duty to bargain the decision to change co-pays (which it did not), the existence of a July 1, 2012 deadline was well known to the union. Indeed, on April 22, 2011, David Susich wrote to Mr.

The Relations Board (Board) holds that health insurance coverage and the terms and costs of health insurance benefits, including copayments and plan designs, subjects of bargaining. are conditions of employment that constitute mandatory Town of Brookline, 20 MLC 1570, 1592, MUP-8426, MUP-8478 12 and MUP-8479 (May 20, 1994); Town of Ludlow, 17 MLC 1191, 1196, MUP-7040 (Aug. 3, 1990)); Board of Regents through SUP-3272 (Aug. of Higher 24, 1992) of Wrentham