February 6, 2007, Introduced by Senators SWITALSKI, JACOBS and SCHAUER and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1969 PA 312, entitled
"An act to provide for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in
municipal police and fire departments; to define such public
departments; to provide for the selection of members of arbitration
panels; to prescribe the procedures and authority thereof; and to
provide for the enforcement and review of awards thereof,"
by amending the title and sections 1 and 3 (MCL 423.231 and
423.233) and by adding section 1a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An act to provide for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes
in municipal police and fire departments and between county
corrections
officers and their employers; to define
such those
public departments and corrections facilities; to provide for the
selection of members of arbitration panels; to prescribe the
procedures
and authority thereof; and of
arbitration panels; to
provide
for the enforcement and review of awards thereof of
arbitration panels; and to prescribe certain powers and duties of
certain state and local officials.
Sec. 1. It is the public policy of this state that in public
police and fire departments and in county corrections facilities,
where the right of employees to strike is by law prohibited, it is
requisite
to the high morale of such the
employees and the
efficient
operation of such those departments
and facilities to
afford an alternate, expeditious, effective, and binding procedure
for the resolution of disputes, and to that end the provisions of
this act, providing for compulsory arbitration, shall be liberally
construed.
Sec. 1a. As used in this act:
(a) "County corrections facility" means any county jail or
other site used to house or detain individuals in the custody of a
county sheriff.
(b) "County corrections officer" means an individual employed
by or under the supervision of a county sheriff while engaged in
the management or control of individuals in the custody of that
county sheriff.
(c) "Employment relations commission" means the commission
created in section 3 of 1939 PA 176, MCL 423.3.
Sec.
3. Whenever If in the course of mediation of a public
police or fire department employee's or county corrections
officer's dispute, except a dispute concerning the interpretation
or application of an existing agreement (a "grievance" dispute),
the dispute has not been resolved to the agreement of both parties
within 30 days of the submission of the dispute to mediation, or
within
such further any additional periods to which the parties may
agree, the employees or employer may initiate binding arbitration
proceedings
by prompt request, therefor, in writing, to the other,
with copy to the employment relations commission.