2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 423 - LABOR DISPUTES AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS
Act 17 of 1980 - COMPULSORY ARBITRATION OF LABOR DISPUTES OF STATE POLICE TROOPERS AND SERGEANTS (423.271 - 423.287)

COMPULSORY ARBITRATION OF LABOR DISPUTES OF STATE POLICE TROOPERS AND SERGEANTS
Act 17 of 1980
AN ACT to provide for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes of state police troopers and sergeants, pursuant to the 1978 amendment to section 5 of article 11 of the state constitution of 1963; to provide for the selection of members of arbitration panels and for their authority; to prescribe the procedure for hearings; and to provide for the enforcement and review of orders of arbitration panels.

History: 1980, Act 17, Imd. Eff. Feb. 24, 1980

• Section 423.271 - Public policy; liberal construction.
• Section 423.272 - Definitions.
• Section 423.273 - Initiation of binding arbitration proceedings; conditions; request.
• Section 423.274 - Selection of delegates to arbitration panel; advising department, employees, and mediation board of selections.
• Section 423.275 - Selection of nominees for impartial arbitrator or chairperson of arbitration panel; peremptorily striking names; designation of impartial arbitrator.
• Section 423.276 - Impartial arbitrator as chairperson of arbitration panel; hearing; notice; duties of chairperson; intervention; receipt of evidence; informal proceedings; technical rules of evidence inapplicable; record of proceedings; transcripts; adjournment; conclusion of hearing; expense of proceedings; payment of public officers or employees; actions and rulings.
• Section 423.277 - Oaths; witnesses; production of books and documents; subpoenas; invoking aid of circuit court; order of circuit court; contempt.
• Section 423.278 - Remanding dispute for further collective bargaining; extension of time; notice of remand.
• Section 423.279 - Identification of economic issues in dispute; submission of last offer of settlement; determination conclusive; findings of fact; promulgation of opinion and order; copies of findings, opinion, and order; adoption of last offer of settlement; basis of findings, opinion, and order.
• Section 423.280 - Factors upon which findings, opinion, and order based; conditions.
• Section 423.281 - Majority decision of arbitration panel as final and binding; enforcement; effect of new state fiscal year awards retroactive; amending or modifying order of arbitration.
• Section 423.282 - Wilfully disobeying or resisting lawful order of enforcement; contempt; fine.
• Section 423.283 - Judicial review; order not stayed by pendency of review proceeding.
• Section 423.284 - Changing terms and conditions of employment during pendency of arbitration proceedings.
• Section 423.285 - Act supplementary to MCL 423.201 et seq.; applicability of fact-finding procedures.
• Section 423.286 - Violation; imprisonment prohibited.
• Section 423.287 - Effective date.