City of Jersey City v. Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Ass'n

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• collecting cases focusing on the nebulous line between negotiable and non- negotiable items and emphasizing the necessity for a case-by-case determination
• holding there was no need to address the unit-work rule as the Local 195 negotiability test applies, but in considering the rule, it would not have applied since the bargaining unit suffered no loss of positions by the public employer's reassignment of work from the unit
• “the courts and the Legislature have long recognized that because police officers are different from other public employees, the scope of discretion accorded to the public entities that administer police departments is necessarily broad ...” (citing N.J.S.A. 40A:14-118)
• applying Local 195 negotiability test

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