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CITY’S DECISION TO LAYOFF FIREFIGHTERS IS NOT ARBITRABLE UNDER A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, PUBLIC POLICY VESTS NONDELEGABLE DISCRETION TO HIRE AND FIRE IN THE PUBLIC CORPORATION (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, modifying Supreme Court, determined the city’s decision to layoff firefighters was not arbitrable under a collective bargaining agreement. The Civil Service Law vests nondelegable discretion to hire and fire in the public corporation:

… [A] dispute is nonarbitrable if a court can conclude, without engaging in any extended factfinding or legal analysis, that a law prohibits, in an absolute sense, the particular matters to be decided by arbitration … . Put differently, a court must stay arbitration where it can conclude, upon the examination of the parties’ contract and any implicated statute on their face, “that the granting of any relief would violate public policy” … .

Addressing the union’s claim regarding the layoffs of the firefighters, Civil Service Law § 80(1) provides that a public employer has the nondelegable discretion to determine—for reasons of economy, among others—what its staffing and budgetary needs are in order to effectively deliver uninterrupted services to the public … . In the absence of bad faith, fraud, or collusion, that discretion “is an undisputed management prerogative” for the public’s benefit, and cannot be altered or modified by agreement or otherwise… . Thus, arbitration of the claim regarding the layoffs of the firefighters would violate public policy. Matter of City of Long Beach v Long Beach Professional Fire Fighters Assn., Local 287, 2018 NY Slip Op 03356, Second Dept 5-9-18

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