§ 28-9.4-1 Declaration of policy – Purpose
§ 28-9.4-2 Definitions
§ 28-9.4-3 Right to organize and bargain collectively
§ 28-9.4-4 Recognition of bargaining agent
§ 28-9.4-5 Obligation to bargain
§ 28-9.4-6 Determination of negotiating agent – Elections
§ 28-9.4-7 Supervision of elections
§ 28-9.4-8 Certification of negotiating agent
§ 28-9.4-9 Request for negotiation or bargaining
§ 28-9.4-10 Unresolved issues submitted to mediation or arbitration
§ 28-9.4-11 Arbitration board – Composition
§ 28-9.4-12 Hearings
§ 28-9.4-13 Appeal from decision
§ 28-9.4-14 Fees and expenses of arbitration
§ 28-9.4-15 Plural and singular usage
§ 28-9.4-16 Strikes by municipal employees illegal
§ 28-9.4-17 Mediation by director of labor and training and his or her conciliators
§ 28-9.4-18 Severability
§ 28-9.4-19 Short title
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 28-9.4 - Municipal Employees' Arbitration

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the department of labor and training. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-29-2
  • Director: means the director of labor and training or his or her designee unless specifically stated otherwise. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-29-2
  • Employee: means any person who has entered into the employment of or works under contract of service or apprenticeship with any employer, except that in the case of a city or town other than the city of Providence it shall only mean that class or those classes of employees as may be designated by a city, town, or regional school district in a manner provided in this chapter to receive compensation under chapters 29 — 38 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-29-2
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • 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
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9