This summer, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled that the Town of Brewster’s “cadet rate” for police academy students was illegal, and violated the state’s Wage Act. This is important for many communities who have attempted to implement a lower rate of pay for student or cadet officers, as such rules could now impose significant liablity […]

N|P partner Gary Nolan recently won an important arbitration victory on behalf of NEPBA Local 570, which represents the Norfolk County Correctional Supervisor’s Union. In order to ensure that certain individuals do not receive special compensation not otherwise available to all superior officers, the union and the Sheriff agreed to phase out so-called out-of-rank pay […]

Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly, the leading legal newspaper in the Commonwealth, recently did an in-depth, front page article on one of our cases – NEPBA Local 20 v. Town of Chelmsford, where the Town’s agents were found to have participated in illegal ex-parte communications with a JLMC arbitration panelist, and where it was determined that the […]