by John Becker | Sep 15, 2026 | Collective Bargaining, Contract & Interest Arbitration, Employment Discrimination, Litigation, Unfair Labor Practices
Civil service appointing authorities – particularly the larger police and fire departments – regularly confront the issue of tie scores – multiple names on eligibility lists for hiring or promotion with the identical score. Civil service law permits the appointing...
by Nicholas Adams | Sep 17, 2025 | In Our Opinion..., Labor In The News, Litigation, Strategic Advice
In a case involving plaintiff Mark Pananos, a high school mathematics teacher, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a Massachusetts public employee who previously forfeited their retirement allowance under M.G.L. c. 32, § 15(4) is permanently ineligible to receive...
by Laurel Goldstein | Jun 6, 2025 | Collective Bargaining, Labor In The News, Litigation
In an important win for employees and unions, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) recently ruled in favor of the Newton Police Superior Officers Association, MCOP Local 401 (“NPSOA”), finding that the City of Newton (“City”) discriminated against NPSOA...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Jun 5, 2025 | Labor In The News, Litigation, Sandulli Grace In The News
A member of the Massachusetts Coalition of Police, the largest police union in the Commonwealth, is back on the job after his union fought for his termination to be overturned. Jeffrey Maligno, a police officer in the Town of Plympton, MA, was accused by his employer...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Feb 19, 2024 | Contract & Interest Arbitration, Labor In The News, Litigation, Sandulli Grace In The News
Retired Malden police sergeant and member of MassCOP Local 479, Paul McLeod, successfully appealed the Malden Retirement Board’s decision to exclude hazardous duty pay from regular compensation for purposes of computing retirement benefits. In January 2022, following...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Apr 21, 2020 | Employment Discrimination, Labor In The News, Litigation
On April 2, 2020, a federal court judge dismissed a discrimination lawsuit against Local 950, International Association of Firefighers (the Brookline firefighters’ union) brought by one of its members. In granting the Union’s motion for summary judgment in Alston v....
