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IMPASSE RESOLUTION WITH GATOR LODGE 67, INC., FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE (B)
recommendation
The City Commission receive written update from the City Attorney regarding the impasse resolution process with Gator Lodge 67, Inc., Fraternal Order of Police.
explanation
Collective bargaining negotiations between the City of Gainesville and Gator Lodge 67, Inc., Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) have reached an impasse. On May 16, 2017, the FOP made a request to the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC) for an appointment of a special magistrate to begin the impasse resolution process pursuant to Section 447.403(2)(a), Florida Statutes.
Once PERC appoints a special magistrate, the special magistrate will hold hearings to define the areas of dispute, determine facts relating to the dispute, and render a decision on any and all unresolved contract issues. Within 15 days after the close of the final hearing, the special magistrate is required to issue a recommended decision to PERC and the parties. Each recommendation of the special magistrate is deemed approved by both parties unless specifically rejected in writing by either party within 20 days after the party received the recommended decision.
If either party does not accept, in whole or in part, the recommended decision of the special magistrate, the City Manager will submit a copy of the special magistrate's findings of fact and recommended decision to the City Commission within 10 days after the rejection. The parties are required to submit their recommendations for settling the disputed impasse issues to the City Commission. The City Commission is then required to conduct a public hearing at which the parties must explain their positions with respect to the rejected recommendations of the special magistrate. Thereafter, the City Commission must take such action as it deems to be in the public interest, including the interest of the public employees involved, to resolve all disputed impas...
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