Minimum Shift Staffing Levels • Mandatory Subject of Collective Bargaining • Managerial Prerogative
City of Allentown v. Int’l Ass’n of Fire Fighters Local 302, PICS Case No. 17-0492 (Pa. March 28, 2017) Todd, J. (40 pages).
Nonabsolute minimum shift staffing requirements for a fire department was a valid subject of collective bargaining and labor arbitration because it more directly concerned firefighter safety, which was an eligible subject of bargaining and arbitration. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
