Rhode Island General Laws 28-9.1-7. Unresolved issues submitted to arbitration
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In the event that the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities are unable, within thirty (30) days from and including the date of their first meeting, to reach an agreement on a contract, any and all unresolved issues shall be submitted to arbitration. The parties may agree in writing to extend the thirty-day (30) period.
History of Section.
P.L. 1961, ch. 149, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 300, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 315, § 1.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 28-9.1-7
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporate authorities: means the proper officials within any city or town whose duty or duties it is to establish the wages, salaries, rates of pay, hours, working conditions, and other terms and conditions of employment of firefighters, whether they are the mayor, city manager, town manager, town administrator, city council, town council, director of personnel, personnel board or commission, or by whatever other name or combination of names they may be designated. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-9.1-3
- in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
- Unresolved issues: means any and all contractual provisions that have not been agreed upon by the bargaining agent and the corporate authorities within the thirty-day (30) period referred to in § 28-9. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-9.1-3