Bill Text: CT HB05203 | 2012 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Municipal Collective Bargaining Arbitration And The Appointment Of Arbitrators To The Arbitration Panel.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-13 - File Number 21 [HB05203 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05203-Comm_Sub.html
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February Session, 2012 |
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AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ARBITRATION AND THE APPOINTMENT OF ARBITRATORS TO THE ARBITRATION PANEL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 7-473c of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2013):
(b) (1) If neither the municipal employer nor the municipal employee organization has requested the arbitration services of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration (A) within one hundred eighty days after the certification or recognition of a newly certified or recognized municipal employee organization required to commence negotiations pursuant to section 7-473a, or (B) within thirty days after the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement, or within thirty days after the specified date for implementation of reopener provisions in an existing collective bargaining agreement, or within thirty days after the date the parties to an existing collective bargaining agreement commence negotiations to revise said agreement on any matter affecting wages, hours, and other conditions of employment, said board shall notify the municipal employer and municipal employee organization that one hundred eighty days have passed since the certification or recognition of the newly certified or recognized municipal employee organization, or that thirty days have passed since the specified date for implementation of reopener provisions in an existing agreement, or the date the parties commenced negotiations to revise an existing agreement on any matter affecting wages, hours and other conditions of employment or the expiration of such collective bargaining agreement and that binding and final arbitration is now imposed on them, provided written notification of such imposition shall be sent by registered mail or certified mail, return receipt requested, to each party.
(2) Within ten days [of receipt of] after the parties receive the written notification required pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection, the chief executive officer of the municipal employer and the executive head of the municipal employee organization each shall select one member of the arbitration panel. Within five days of their appointment, the [two members of the arbitration panel] State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall select a third member, who shall be (A) an impartial representative of the interests of the public in general, (B) a resident of the state, and (C) and who shall be selected at random from the panel of neutral arbitrators appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Such third member shall be the chairperson of the panel.
(3) In the event that the municipal employer or the municipal employee organization have not selected their respective members of the arbitration panel, [or the two members of the panel have not selected the third member,] the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall appoint such members as are needed to complete the panel, provided (A) the member or members so appointed are residents of this state, and (B) the [selection of the third member of the panel by the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration] member or members shall be [made] selected at random from among the members of the panel of neutral arbitrators appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
January 1, 2013 |
7-473c(b) |
LAB |
Joint Favorable Subst. |