Request for arbitration, when, how made
When a paid fire department and its employer disagree about pay, work hours, or working conditions, either side can ask for arbitration — meaning a neutral group will help settle the fight. To ask for arbitration, workers need a written request signed by at least 51% of fire department employees, or the government body in charge of the fire department can pass a resolution asking for it. This only applies to fire departments in areas with more than 20,000 people or in a first class county.
290.350. Request for , when, how made — to be appointed. — Whenever a dispute exists concerning wages, hours of labor, or conditions of of members of a paid fire of any county, city, town, , or other governmental unit having a population in excess of twenty thousand or located in a , and a request for arbitration is made by either to the dispute, a firemen's shall be appointed as provided in sections 290.350 to 290.380. Request for arbitration may be made by written signed by at least fifty-one percent of the employees of the fire department or by of the , council, board, or other having direction and control over the fire department.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1963 p. 415 § 1) (1968) As applied to constitutional charter cities, §§ 290.350 and 290.360 are unconstitutional and void as imposing duties upon a municipal officer. State ex rel. Burke v. Cervantes, 423 S.W.2d 791 (Mo.).
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