When used in sections
7-467 to
7-477, inclusive:
(1) “Municipal employer” means any political subdivision of the state, including any town, city, borough, district, district department of health, school board, housing authority or other authority established by law, a private nonprofit corporation which has a valid contract with any town, city, borough or district to extinguish fires and to protect its inhabitants from loss by fire, and any person or persons designated by the municipal employer to act in its interest in dealing with municipal employees;
(2) “Employee” means any employee of a municipal employer, whether or not in the classified service of the municipal employer, except elected officials, administrative officials, board and commission members, certified teachers, part-time employees who work less than twenty hours per week on a seasonal basis, department heads and persons in such other positions as may be excluded from coverage under sections 7-467 to 7-477, inclusive, in accordance with subdivision (2) of section 7-471;
(3) “Seasonal basis” means working for a period of not more than one hundred twenty calendar days in any calendar year;
(4) “Department head” means an employee who heads any department in a municipal organization, has substantial supervisory control of a permanent nature over other municipal employees, and is directly accountable to the board of selectmen of a town, city or borough not having a charter or special act form of government, or to the chief executive officer of any other town, city or borough;
(5) “Department” means any major functional division in a municipal organization, notwithstanding the provisions of any charter or special act to the contrary;
(6) “Employee organization” means any lawful association, labor organization, federation or council having as a primary purpose the improvement of wages, hours and other conditions of employment among employees of municipal employers.
(February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 688, S. 5; P.A. 78-375, S. 1; P.A. 83-503; P.A. 85-40; P.A. 90-47, S. 1.)
History: 1969 act included district departments of health in definition of “municipal employer”; P.A. 78-375 excluded department heads from definition of “employee” and deleted reference to persons in supervisory positions; P.A. 83-503 defined “seasonal basis”, “department head” and “department”, and included part-time employees who do not work on a seasonal basis within the definition of “employee”; P.A. 85-40 redefined “seasonal basis” as work lasting not more than 120 calendar days rather than as work lasting 65 working days; P.A. 90-47 added nonprofit fire-fighting corporations which contract with municipalities to the definition of “municipal employer”.
See Sec. 10-153b et seq. re collective bargaining for teachers.
Cited. 154 C. 530; 162 C. 579; 171 C. 345, 347; Id., 420; Id., 553; 175 C. 349. Standing to test constitutionality of binding arbitration provisions of Municipal Employees Relations Act discussed. 181 C. 421. Cited. 182 C. 93; 185 C. 88; 196 C. 192. Exhaustion of administrative remedies discussed. 200 C. 38. Cited. 201 C. 577; 204 C. 746; 205 C. 116; 210 C. 549, 551; 212 C. 294; 215 C. 14; 221 C. 244; 225 C. 297; 234 C. 123; 237 C. 378; 239 C. 32.
Cited. 3 CA 1; 16 CA 232. Subdiv. (2): “Employee” does not include retired or former employees and municipal employer was not obligated to bargain with respect to claims of former employees, regardless of when claims arose. 128 CA 741.
Cited. 28 CS 267. A public announcement of plaintiff's intention to file a prohibited practice complaint against a union is protected by the Municipal Employees Relations Act when the complaint is actually filed at a later date. 31 CS 7. Cited. Id., 212; 36 CS 18; 39 CS 1; 42 CS 227; 43 CS 340; Id., 470.
Notes of Decisions
Town of Southington v. Connecticut State Bd. of Labor Relations, 556 A.2d 166 (Conn. 1989).
· cites it 20× “The dispositive issue in this case is whether the state board of labor relations erred in deciding that the positions, of tax assessor, building official, town planner, tax collector and youth counselor in the town of Southington were not department heads within the meaning of…”
Police Dep't v. State Bd. of Labor Relations, 622 A.2d 1005 (Conn. 1993).
· cites it 18× “The sole issue on appeal is whether a part-time municipal employee qualified, for purposes of collective bargaining rights, as an employee under General Statutes § 7-467 (2) and (3) of the Municipal Employee Relations Act (MERA).”
Clark v. Waterford, Cohanzie Fire Dept., 346 Conn. 711 (Conn. 2023).
· cites it 10× “’’ 10 General Statutes § 7-467 (1) provides: ‘‘ ‘Municipal employer’ means any political subdivision of the state, including any town, city, borough, district, district department of health, school board, housing authority or other authority established by law, a private…”
Murach v. Plan. & Zoning Comm'n, 491 A.2d 1058 (Conn. 1985).
· cites it 4× “Moreover, under our state Municipal Employee Relations Act, General Statutes §§ 7-467 through 7-477, nonmanagement personnel employed by municipal fire departments may organize and bargain collectively with their employer.”
Maturo v. State Employees Ret. Comm'n, 162 A.3d 706 (Conn. 2017).
· cites it 4× “" The other authorities on which the plaintiff relies relate to different statutory schemes and, therefore, do not support his argument that the term "employee" is used as a term of art in the act.”
Daley v. City of Hartford, 574 A.2d 194 (Conn. 1990).
· cites it 4× “Because of the provisions of General Statutes §§ 7-467 through 7-477, the collective bargaining agreement between the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, Local 308 (union) and the defendant governed the plaintiffs’ employment relationship with the defendant.”
Town of Winchester v. Connecticut State Bd. of Labor Relations, 402 A.2d 332 (Conn. 1978).
· cites it 3× “The town specifically asserts that the Superior Court erred in holding that “[w]hile federal courts have consistently held that bargaining with a one-man unit is improper, under the Municipal Employee Relations Act, §§ 7-467 to 7-477, inclusive, of the General Statutes, a…”
City of Hartford v. Hartford Mun. Employees Ass'n, 788 A.2d 60 (Conn. 2002).
· cites it 2× “General Statutes § 7-467 (1) defines a municipal employer as “any political subdivision of the state, including any town, city, borough, district, district department of health, school board, housing authority or other authority est ablished by law, a private nonprofit…”
Town of Stratford v. Local 134, IFPTE, 519 A.2d 1 (Conn. 1986).
· cites it 3× “We have often noted that the language of the Municipal Employee Relations Act; General Statutes §§ 7-467 through 7-477; and of the National Labor Relations Act; 29 U.”
Shortt v. New Milford Police Dep't, 562 A.2d 7 (Conn. 1989).
· cites it 3× “This conclusion finds further support in the provisions of the Municipal Employee Relations Act (MERA), General Statutes § 7-467 et seq. Extending the rights and obligations of collective bargaining to employees of local government, MERA “was designed to accomplish the salutary…”
Local 1186, AFSCME v. Bd. of Educ. of New Britain, 438 A.2d 12 (Conn. 1980).
· cites it 4× “The plaintiffs contend that their collective bargaining agreement, negotiated pursuant to the Municipal Employee Relations Act, (hereinafter the MERA); General Statutes §§ 7-467—7-477; is binding upon the defendants.”
— Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-467(2) — 1 case
Maturo v. State Employees Ret. Comm'n, 162 A.3d 706 (Conn. 2017).
“" The other authorities on which the plaintiff relies relate to different statutory schemes and, therefore, do not support his argument that the term "employee" is used as a term of art in the act.”
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