Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-466. Collective bargaining authorized. Section 7-466 is repealed. (1963, P.A. 495, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-467. Collective bargaining. Definitions. 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 o…

Sec. 7-467a. Qualification of employee organization. No employee organization, as defined in section 7-467, shall be eligible to petition for exclusive recognition or to participate in a recognition election under section 7-471 unless it has been in existence for not fewer than s…

Sec. 7-468. Rights of employees and representatives. Duty of fair representation. (a) Employees shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of, the right of self-organization, to form, join or assist any employee organization, to bargain collectively through representative…

Sec. 7-469. Duty to bargain collectively. The municipal employer and such employee organization as has been designated as exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, through appropriate officials or their representatives, shall have the duty to bargain collectiv…

Sec. 7-470. Prohibited acts of employers and employee organizations. (a) Municipal employers or their representatives or agents are prohibited from: (1) Interfering, restraining or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7-468; (2) dominating or int…

Sec. 7-471. Powers of State Board of Labor Relations. The State Board of Labor Relations shall have the following power and authority in relation to collective bargaining in municipal employment: (1) Whenever, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the board,…

Sec. 7-471a. Supervisory employees not required to form employees association. Nothing in sections 7-467 and 7-471 shall require any employees in a supervisory position to form an employees association. (P.A. 78-375, S. 3.) Standing to test constitutionality of binding arbitratio…

Sec. 7-472. Mediation by State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. (a) The services of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration shall be available to municipal employers and employee organizations for purposes of mediation of grievances or impasses in contract or contract reo…

Sec. 7-473. Petition to State Board of Mediation and Arbitration for fact finding. Fact finder's report and appearance before parties. Procedure for acceptance or rejection of report. Section 7-473 is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. 7; P.A. 75-173, S. 1; 75-570, S. 3; P.A…

Sec. 7-473a. Notice of expiration date of collective bargaining agreement. Notice of newly certified or recognized municipal employee organization. Filing; form. A notice of the expiration date of any collective bargaining agreement between a municipal employer and a municipal em…

Sec. 7-473b. Mandatory timetable for negotiations. Appointment of mediator. (a) The negotiations between a municipal employer and a municipal employee organization shall commence at least one hundred twenty days prior to the expiration date of any current collective bargaining ag…

Sec. 7-473c. Neutral Arbitrator Selection Committee. Panel of neutral arbitrators. Mandatory binding arbitration; procedure; apportionment of costs. Rejection of award by legislative body of the municipal employer. Second arbitration format. (a) The Labor Commissioner shall appoi…

Sec. 7-474. Negotiations and agreements between municipality and employee representatives. Federal approval. Elective binding arbitration; procedure; apportionment of costs. (a) Except as hereinafter provided, when an employee organization has been designated, in accordance with …

Sec. 7-474a. Provision limiting volunteer services for maintenance of buildings and grounds prohibited in collective bargaining agreements. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, no collective bargaining agreement entered into on or after July 1, 2018, between a m…

Sec. 7-475. Strikes prohibited. Nothing in sections 7-467 to 7-477, inclusive, shall constitute a grant of the right to strike to employees of any municipal employer and such strikes are prohibited. In the event an agreement expires before a new agreement has been approved by the…

Sec. 7-476. Existing bargaining unit not altered during term of agreement. Nothing in sections 7-467 to 7-477, inclusive, is intended to require that the composition of an existing bargaining unit be altered during the term of an existing agreement. (February, 1965, P.A. 159, S. …

Sec. 7-477. Payroll deductions of union dues authorized. Municipal employers and employee organizations are authorized to negotiate provisions in a collective bargaining agreement calling for the payroll deduction of employee organization dues and initiation fees. (February, 1965…

Sec. 7-478. Municipal employee member of civil service board or commission not to participate in certain matters. Any provision of any special act, home rule ordinance or charter to the contrary notwithstanding, no member of a municipal civil service board or commission who is an…

Sec. 7-478a. Municipalities participating in interlocal agreements deemed a municipal employer subject to collective bargaining. (a) Two or more municipal employers participating in an interlocal agreement pursuant to sections 7-339a to 7-339l, inclusive, shall constitute a munic…

Sec. 7-478b. Collective bargaining agreement provision re closing of nonmunicipal offices on Martin Luther King Day. (a) Each municipality shall include a requirement in any collective bargaining agreement executed on or after April 26, 2000, that all nonessential municipal offic…

Sec. 7-478c. Reopening of certain collective bargaining agreements for compensation or exchange of benefits for observance of Martin Luther King Day. Notwithstanding the provisions of the general statutes, each municipal employer and each employee organization in a municipality t…

Sec. 7-478d. Duties of State Board of Mediation and Arbitration if no resolution. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-473c, if any such municipal employer and any such employee organization are unable to resolve the compensation or exchange of benefits issue after reopeni…

Sec. 7-478e. Mandatory binding arbitration for issues re observance of Martin Luther King Day. Panel of neutral arbitrators. Procedure. Criteria for decision. Apportionment of costs. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-473c: (1) If the parties are unable to resolve the co…

Sec. 7-478f. Rejection of award by legislative body. Second arbitration format. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-473c: (1) Not later than October 30, 2000, the legislative body of the municipal employer may reject the award of the arbitrators or single arbitrator issue…

Sec. 7-479. Conflicts of interest. For the purposes of this section, “municipality” means any town, city, borough, school district, taxing district, fire district, district department of health, probate district, housing authority, flood commission or authority established by spe…