by Sandulli Grace Staff | Jun 13, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
An arbitrator has ruled that the Peabody Police Chief violated the past practice clause of a collective bargaining agreement and his own department rule when he unreasonably denied the request of a local union official to work as a reserve officer in another town....
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Jun 13, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a public employee’s personal use of a municipal vehicle, which also is used for official purposes, does not count as “regular compensation” for purposes of retirement. The decision...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | May 30, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
In a decision highly anticipated by the law enforcement community in Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court Wednesday ruled that the state’s ban on lie detectors does not apply to police officers suspected of “criminal activity” – even to police officers who have...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | May 30, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
Continuing its relative and seemingly endless streak of anti-union arbitration decisions, the state’s highest appellate court reversed an arbitrator’s promotion of a bargaining unit employee. In Somerville v. Somerville Municipal Employees Association, SJC-10089 (May...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | May 7, 2008 | Sandulli Grace In The News
The full Massachusetts Civil Service Commission has affirmed a hearing Commissioner’s ruling that a City cannot introduce evidence of the results of a lie detector test. Sandulli Grace Attorney Bryan Decker successfully argued at hearing that polygraph results should...
