The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations this week issued a 50-page stinging rebuke of the Town of Chelmsford’s municipal management, finding that its Town Manager and Counsel unlawfully communicated with an arbitration panel member in an attempt to gain confidential information in order to influence an arbitration award, and also by misleading the Town’s Finance […]

NP Attorney Peter Perroni recently won an important arbitration decision on behalf of NEPBA Local 23 (Rochester, NH Police Patrol Officers’ Union). NEPBA’s member, a police officer who was vested in the NH retirement system, but not yet eligible due to age, was denied contractual sick-time buyout based on the fact that he had to […]

In response to a consolidated lawsuit filed by Nolan | Perroni on behalf of the NEPBA (and the Worcester Police Patrol Officers and President Dan Gilbert, NEPBA’s representative local union), and other unions, the Suffolk Superior Court today enjoined POST from requiring officers to answer two of the most objectionable questions on the recertification questionnaire. […]