HOUSE BILL NO. 6294
December 13, 2024, Introduced by Rep. O'Neal and referred to the Committee on Government
Operations.
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 2 (MCL 423.231 and
423.232), section 2 as amended by 2023 PA 171, and by adding
section 15.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
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1 TITLE
2 An act to provide for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes
3 in municipal police and fire departments; to define such public
4 departments; for public employees; to provide for the selection of
5 members of arbitration panels; to prescribe the procedures and
6 authority thereof; and to provide for the enforcement and review of
7 awards thereof.
8 Sec. 1. It is the public policy of this state that in public
9 police and fire departments, where the for public employees, whose
10 right of employees to strike is by law prohibited, it is requisite
11 to the high morale of such employees and the efficient operation of
12 such departments public entities to afford an alternate,
13 expeditious, effective, and binding procedure for the resolution of
14 disputes, and to that end the provisions of this act, providing for
15 compulsory arbitration, shall be liberally construed.
16 Sec. 2. (1) As used in this act, :
17 (a) "Emergency medical service personnel" includes a person
18 who provides assistance at dispatched or observed medical
19 emergencies occurring outside a recognized medical facility
20 including instances of heart attack, stroke, injury accidents,
21 electrical accidents, drug overdoses, imminent childbirth, and
22 other instances where there is the possibility of death or further
23 injury; initiates stabilizing treatment or transportation of
24 injured from the emergency site; and notifies police or interested
25 departments of certain situations encountered including criminal
26 matters, poisonings, and the report of contagious diseases.
27 (b) "Emergency telephone operator" includes a person employed
28 by a police or fire department for the purpose of relaying
29 emergency calls to police, fire, or emergency medical service
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1 personnel.
2 (c) "Institution of higher education" means any of the
3 following:
4 (i) An institution of higher education described in section 4
5 or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.
6 (ii) A community or junior college described in section 7 of
7 article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.
8 (d) "Public "public police or fire department employee" means any
9 employee of a city, county, village, township, or institution of
10 higher education, or of any authority, district, board, or any
11 other entity created in whole or in part by the authorization of 1
12 or more cities, counties, villages, townships, or institutions of
13 higher education, whether created by statute, ordinance, contract,
14 resolution, delegation, or any other mechanism, who is engaged as a
15 police officer or in firefighting or who is subject to the hazards
16 thereof; a corrections officer employed by a county sheriff in a
17 county jail, work camp, or other facility maintained by a county
18 and that houses adult prisoners; emergency medical service
19 personnel employed by a public police or fire department; or an
20 emergency telephone operator, but only if directly employed by a
21 public police or fire department. Public police or fire department
22 employee does not include any of the following:
23 (i) An employee of a metropolitan district created under 1939
24 PA 147, MCL 119.51 to 119.62.
25 (ii) An emergency telephone operator employed by a 9-1-1
26 authority or consolidated dispatch center.
27 (iii) An employee of an authority that is in existence on June
28 1, 2011, unless the employee is represented by a bargaining
29 representative on that date, or a contract in effect on that date
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1 specifically provides the employee with coverage under this act. An
2 exclusion under this subparagraph terminates if the authority
3 composition changes to include an additional governmental unit or a
4 portion of a governmental unit. This subparagraph does not
5 terminate an exclusion created under subparagraphs (i) to (iii).
6 (2) This act does not apply to persons employed by a private
7 emergency medical service company who work under a contract with a
8 governmental unit or personnel working in an emergency service
9 organization whose duties are solely of an administrative or
10 supporting nature and who are not otherwise qualified under
11 subsection (1)(a).a public employee as that term is defined in
12 section 1 of 1947 PA 336, MCL 423.201.
13 Sec. 15. An award issued by an arbitration panel under this
14 act that involves an employee in the classified state civil service
15 does not take effect unless the award is approved by the civil
16 service commission.
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Statutes affected:
House Introduced Bill: 423.231, 423.232