General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 150E Labor Relations: Public Employees

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 150E, Section 1
  The following words and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— “Board”, the board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collective bargaining; self organization - Chapter 150E, Section 2
  Employees shall have the right of self-organization and the right to form, join, or assist any employee organization for the purpose of bargaining collectively through...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bargaining units; rules and regulations; procedures; officers excepted - Chapter 150E, Section 3
  The commission shall prescribe rules and regulations and establish procedures for the determination of appropriate bargaining units which shall be consistent with the purposes of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusive representative; hearing; election; stipulation; certification; review; verification of evidence of written majority authorization - Chapter 150E, Section 4
  Public employers may recognize an employee organization designated by the majority of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit as the exclusive representative of all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusive representative; powers and duties; grievances - Chapter 150E, Section 5
  The exclusive representative shall have the right to act for and negotiate agreements covering all employees in the unit and shall be responsible for representing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Negotiations; meetings - Chapter 150E, Section 6
  The employer and the exclusive representative shall meet at reasonable times, including meetings in advance of the employer’s budget-making process and shall negotiate in good...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collective bargaining agreements; term; appropriation requests; provisions; legal conflicts, priority of agreement; review of agreement by retirement board - Chapter 150E, Section 7
  [ Paragraph (a) applicable as provided by 2011, 198, Secs. 2 and 3.](a) Any collective bargaining agreement reached between the employer and the exclusive representative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grievance procedure; arbitration - Chapter 150E, Section 8
  The parties may include in any written agreement a grievance procedure culminating in final and binding arbitration to be invoked in the event of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Impasses in negotiations - Chapter 150E, Section 9
  After a reasonable period of negotiation over the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, either party or the parties acting jointly may petition the board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Strikes prohibited; investigation; enforcement proceedings - Chapter 150E, Section 9A
  (a) No public employee or employee organization shall engage in a strike, and no public employee or employee organization shall induce, encourage or condone any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited practices - Chapter 150E, Section 10
  (a) It shall be a prohibited practice for a public employer or its designated representative to: (1) Interfere, restrain, or coerce any employee in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints; investigation; hearing; orders; review; hearings before board - Chapter 150E, Section 11
  (a) When a complaint is made to the department of labor relations that a practice prohibited by section 10 has been committed, the director may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service fee; imposition; amount; discrimination - Chapter 150E, Section 12
  The commonwealth or any other employer shall require as a condition of employment during the life of a collective bargaining agreement so providing, the payment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - List of employee organizations; required information; filing; compliance, enforcement - Chapter 150E, Section 13
  The commission shall maintain a list of employee organizations. To be recognized as such and to be included in the list an organization shall file...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Information statement and financial report required of employee organizations; filing; enforcement - Chapter 150E, Section 14
  No person or association of persons shall operate or maintain an employee organization under this chapter unless and until there has been filed with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 150E, Section 15
  Whoever wilfully assaults, physically resists, prevents, impedes, or interferes with a mediator, fact-finder, or arbitrator, or any member of the commission or any of the...

Last modified: September 11, 2015