Rooney v. Town of Yarmouth

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• acknowledging that there are certain “personal, substantive, nonwaivable statutory guarantee[s]” that an employee need not submit to arbitration
• contrasting Rooney's rights under Quinn Bill with \right to minimum wage and overtime pay\ under the Fair Labor Standards Act and \right to equal employment opportunities\
• “employees need not submit to arbitration disputes based on independent statutory rights that are not addressed and encompassed by the collective bargaining agreement”
• G. L. c. 41, § 108L, an incentive pay program for police officers not enumerated in § 7[if], did not “conflict” with the collective bargaining agreement
• unilateral expectation of receiving a benefit is insufficient to create a property interest in it
• incorporation of astatutory provision into the collective bargaining agreement makes the grievance procedure the exclusive remedy

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