Local 346, International Brotherhood of Police Officers v. Labor Relations Commission

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• recognizing possibility that, even though a decision may directly affect employment relationship, bargaining is not necessarily mandated where it would \unduly impinge on a public employer's freedom to perform its public functions\
• balancing analysis; town's interest in requiring police suspected of criminal activity to submit to polygraph tests was held to outweigh officers' interest in negotiating
• no distinction perceived between decision to require officer to undergo polygraph testing or face discharge and means or impact of decision
• union’s acquiescence to police department’s demand for submission of its employees to lie detector test is not required under § 19B, citing Baker v. Lawrence, supra
• police chief may require officers suspected of criminal conduct to take polygraph examination without mandatory bargaining because integrity and credibility of police departments is indispensable to effective public law enforcement
• \the police department's overriding interest in the integrity of its police officers exempted the town from negotiating with the union over the use of polygraph examinations to investigate criminal activity by police officers\

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