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NH Rev Stat § 273:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:20 - Arbitration.

    273:20 Arbitration. –||If arbitration is agreed to, the business shall continue on the existing basis, and the employees shall remain at work pending the decision of the board, which shall be rendered within 7 days after the completion of the hearing and shall be final.|||Source. 1911, 198:6. 1913, 186:2. PL 174:20. RL 210:20.|
NH Rev Stat § 273:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:21 - Of Wages.

    273:21 Of Wages. –||If said hearing is on a question of wages the decision shall revert to the date when the employees presented their demand in writing to said employer.|||Source. 1911, 198:6. 1913, 186:1, 2. PL 174:21. RL 210:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 273:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:22 - Effect of Decision.

    273:22 Effect of Decision. –||The decision shall be binding upon the parties concerned in said controversy for 6 months, or until 60 days after either party has given the other notice in writing of his or their intention not to be bound by the same. Such notice may be given to employees by posting the same in 3 conspicuous places in the place of employment.|||Source. 1911, 198:6. 1913, 186:2. PL 174:22. RL 210:22.|
NH Rev Stat § 273:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:23 - Procedure.

    273:23 Procedure. –||The chairman of said board shall keep a record of the proceedings, issue subpoenas and administer oaths to the members of said board and to any witness the board may deem necessary to summon. Any notice or process issued by said board may be served by any sheriff or constable to whom the same may be directed, or in whose hands the same may be placed for service.|||Source. 1911, 198:6. 1913, 186:2. PL 174:23. RL 210:23.|
NH Rev Stat § 273:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:24 - Compensation of Arbitrators.

    273:24 Compensation of Arbitrators. –||Such arbitrators shall receive $50 a day for each day actually engaged in such arbitration and their necessary traveling expenses, to be paid upon vouchers signed by the commissioner, with the approval of the governor, out of the funds appropriated for the maintenance of the department of labor.|||Source. 1911, 198:5. 1913, 186:2. PL 174:24. RL 210:24. RSA 273:24. 1955, 323:8. 1963, 216:2, eff. July 1, 1963.|
NH Rev Stat § 273:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:25 - Statements to Commissioner.

    273:25 Statements to Commissioner. –||Upon the failure of the commissioner in any case to secure a reference to said board of arbitration, he shall request a sworn statement from each party to the dispute of the facts upon which their dispute and their reasons for not submitting the same to arbitration are based. Any statement made to the commissioner under this provision shall be for public use, and shall be given publicity in such newspapers as desire to use it.|||Source. 1911, 198:6. 1913, 186:3. PL 174:25. RL 210:25.|
NH Rev Stat § 273:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:26 - Strikes; Lockouts.

    273:26 Strikes;  Lockouts. –||Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the commissioner, either by notice from the mayor of a city, a county commissioner, the president of a board of trade or other representative body, the president of a central labor council or assembly, or of any 5 reputable citizens or otherwise, that a strike or lockout is seriously threatened or has actually occurred in the state, involving an employer and his or its present or past employees, if at the time such employer is employing, or, up to the occurrence of the strike or lockout was employing, not less than 10 persons in the same general line of business in any city or town in this state, and the commissioner shall be satisfied that such information is correct, it shall be his duty, within 3 days thereafter, to put himself in communication with such employer and employees, and endeavor by mediation to effect an amicable settlement between them, or to persuade them to submit the matter to said board of arbitration, and to act as hereinbefore provided in case of disputes and controversies.|||Source. 1911, 198:8. 1913, 186:4. PL 174:26. RL 210:26.|
NH Rev Stat § 273:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:27 - Investigations; Reports.

    273:27 Investigations;  Reports. –||In case the parties do not agree to so submit the matter, the commissioner may investigate the cause of such controversy and ascertain which party thereto is mainly responsible for the continuance of the same, and may make and publish a report assigning such responsibility.|||Source. 1911, 198:8. 1913, 186:4. PL 174:27. RL 210:27.|
NH Rev Stat § 273:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:28 - Repealed by 2018, 344:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2018.

    273:28 Repealed by 2018, 344:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2018. –|
NH Rev Stat § 273:28-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273 - Department of Labor|Section 273:28-a - Repealed by 2019, 138:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.

    273:28-a Repealed by 2019, 138:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019. –|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:2-a - Conflict of Interest.

    273-A:2-a Conflict of Interest. –||I. No board member shall participate in any case or issue before the board in which he has a potential conflict of interest. A conflict of interest shall include any case or action in which a member has a personal or professional interest and any case or action in which a member is personally or professionally associated with any of the parties involved.||II. The board shall adopt rules, under RSA 541-A, to establish procedures for identifying and addressing potential conflicts of interest by board members.|||Source. 1987, 379:3, eff. May 26, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:3 - Obligation to Bargain.

    273-A:3 Obligation to Bargain. –||I. It is the obligation of the public employer and the employee organization certified by the board as the exclusive representative of the bargaining unit to negotiate in good faith. "Good faith" negotiation involves meeting at reasonable times and places in an effort to reach agreement on the terms of employment, and to cooperate in mediation and fact-finding required by this chapter, but the obligation to negotiate in good faith shall not compel either party to agree to a proposal or to make a concession.||II. (a) Any party desiring to bargain shall serve written notice of its intention on the other party at least 120 days before the budget submission date; provided, however, that bargaining with state employees shall commence not later than 120 days before the deadline for submission of the governor's proposed operating budget.||(b) Only cost items shall be submitted to the legislative body of the public employer for approval at the next annual meeting of the legislative body, unless there is an emergency as defined in RSA 31:5 or RSA 197:3. If the legislative body rejects the submission, or while accepting the submission takes any action which would result in a modification of the terms of the cost item submitted to it, either party may reopen negotiations on the entire agreement. No cost item agreed to by the public employer and the employee organization shall be modified by the legislative body of such public employer.||(c) If the public employer is a local political subdivision with a city or town council form of government cost items shall be submitted within 30 days to the city council or aldermen or to the town council for approval. Within 30 days of the receipt of the submission, the city council, aldermen, or the town council shall vote to accept or reject the cost items. If the city council or aldermen or the town council rejects any part of the submission, or while accepting the submission takes any action which would result in a modification of the terms of the cost item submitted to it, either party may reopen negotiations on all or part of the entire agreement.||III. Matters regarding the policies and practice of any merit system established by statute, charter or ordinance relating to recruitment, examination, appointment and advancement under conditions of political neutrality and based upon principles of merit and competence shall not be subjects of bargaining under the provisions of this chapter. Nothing herein shall be construed to diminish the authority of the state personnel commission or any board or agency established by statute, charter or ordinance to conduct and grade merit examinations from which appointments or promotions may be made.||IV. Each public employer shall record its budget submission date with the board.|||Source. 1975, 490:2. 1977, 437:2. 1979, 374:3. 1985, 39:1. 1998, 205:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1998. 2013, 244:1, eff. Sept. 22, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:4 - Grievance Procedures.

    273-A:4 Grievance Procedures. –||Every agreement negotiated under the terms of this chapter shall be reduced to writing and shall contain workable grievance procedures. No grievance resulting from the failure of a teacher to be renewed pursuant to RSA 189:14-a shall be subject to arbitration or any other binding resolution, except as provided by RSA 189:14-a and RSA 189:14-b. Any such provision in force as of the effective date of this section shall be null and void upon the expiration date of that collective bargaining agreement. However, after the expiration date of that collective bargaining agreement, nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the school district public employer and the exclusive bargaining representative from entering into a subsequent agreement that may include arbitration or any other binding resolution for teacher nonrenewals pursuant to RSA 189:14-a and RSA 189:14-b. If such grievance procedures become incorporated into a subsequent collective bargaining agreement, those procedures shall become null and void at the expiration of that agreement. "Grievance resulting from failure of a teacher to be renewed" means a grievance that challenges nonrenewal, or that seeks reversal or reinstatement from nonrenewal as a remedy.|||Source. 1975, 490:2. 2003, 204:5. 2008, 246:2, eff. Aug. 23, 2008. 2011, 267:3, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:5 - Unfair Labor Practices Prohibited.

    273-A:5 Unfair Labor Practices Prohibited. –||I. It shall be a prohibited practice for any public employer:||(a) To restrain, coerce or otherwise interfere with its employees in the exercise of the rights conferred by this chapter;||(b) To dominate or to interfere in the formation or administration of any employee organization;||(c) To discriminate in the hiring or tenure, or the terms and conditions of employment of its employees for the purpose of encouraging or discouraging membership in any employee organization;||(d) To discharge or otherwise discriminate against any employee because he has filed a complaint, affidavit or petition, or given information or testimony under this chapter;||(e) To refuse to negotiate in good faith with the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit, including the failure to submit to the legislative body any cost item agreed upon in negotiations;||(f) To invoke a lockout;||(g) To fail to comply with this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter;||(h) To breach a collective bargaining agreement;||(i) To make any law or regulation, or to adopt any rule relative to the terms and conditions of employment that would invalidate any portion of an agreement entered into by the public employer making or adopting such law, regulation or rule.||II. It shall be a prohibited practice for the exclusive representative of any public employee:||(a) To restrain, coerce or otherwise interfere with public employees in the exercise of their rights under this chapter;||(b) To restrain, coerce or otherwise interfere with public employers in their selection of agents to represent them in collective bargaining negotiations or the settlement of grievances;||(c) To cause or attempt to cause a public employer to discriminate against an employee in violation of RSA 273-A:5, I(c), or to discriminate against any public employee whose membership in an employee organization has been denied or terminated for reasons other than failure to pay membership dues;||(d) To refuse to negotiate in good faith with the public employer;||(e) To engage in a strike or other form of job action;||(f) To breach a collective bargaining agreement.||(g) To fail to comply with this chapter or any rule adopted hereunder.|||Source. 1975, 490:2. 1979, 374:4, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:7 - Injunctions.

    273-A:7 Injunctions. –||The board shall petition the superior court for the county in which the party sought to be enjoined is principally located for such order of the court as may be necessary to compel obedience to an order of the board and the superior court shall issue its order upon satisfying itself that:||I. The order of the board was within its jurisdiction to issue; and||II. There is substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole to support the finding of the board.|||Source. 1975, 490:2. 1977, 437:3, eff. Sept. 3, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:8 - Determining Bargaining Unit.

    273-A:8 Determining Bargaining Unit. –||I. The board or its designee shall determine the appropriate bargaining unit and shall certify the exclusive representative thereof when petitioned to do so under RSA 273-A:10. In making its determination the board should take into consideration the principle of community of interest. The community of interest may be exhibited by one or more of the following criteria, although it is not limited to such:||(a) Employees with the same conditions of employment;||(b) Employees with a history of workable and acceptable collective negotiations;||(c) Employees in the same historic craft or profession;||(d) Employees functioning within the same organizational unit.||In no case shall the board certify a bargaining unit of fewer than 10 employees with the same community of interest. For purposes of this section, probationary employees shall be counted to satisfy the employee minimum number requirement. In no case shall such probationary employees vote in any election conducted under the provisions of this chapter to certify an employee organization as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit.||II. The board may certify a bargaining unit composed of professional and non-professional employees only if both the professional and non-professional employees, voting separately, vote to join the proposed bargaining unit. Persons exercising supervisory authority involving the significant exercise of discretion may not belong to the same bargaining unit as the employees they supervise.||III. In the event the bargaining unit is determined by the board's designee, the decision may be appealed to the board for final determination.|||Source. 1975, 490:2. 1983, 270:2. 2008, 137:1, eff. Aug. 5, 2008. 2011, 45:1, eff. July 8, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:9-a - Bargaining by Judicial Employees.

    273-A:9-a Bargaining by Judicial Employees. –||I. All cost items and terms and conditions of employment affecting judicial employees generally shall be negotiated by the unified court system, represented by the chief justice of the supreme court with the advice and consent of the judicial branch administrative council appointed pursuant to supreme court rule 54, with a single employee bargaining committee comprised of exclusive representatives of all interested bargaining units. Negotiations regarding terms and conditions of employment unique to individual bargaining units shall be negotiated individually with the representatives of those units by the chief justice and the administrative council.||II. The chief justice of the supreme court, with the advice and consent of the judicial branch administrative council appointed pursuant to supreme court rule 54, may designate an official negotiator who shall serve at the pleasure of the chief justice and the administrative council.|||Source. 2001, 170:3. 2007, 107:2, eff. June 11, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:9-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:9-b - Repealed by 2018, 12:2, eff. June 19, 2018.

    273-A:9-b Repealed by 2018, 12:2, eff. June 19, 2018. –|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:11 - Rights Accompanying Certification.

    273-A:11 Rights Accompanying Certification. –||I. Public employers shall extend the following rights to the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit certified under RSA 273-A:8:||(a) The right to represent employees in collective bargaining negotiations and in the settlement of grievances. An individual employee may present an oral grievance to his employer without the intervention of the exclusive representative. Until the grievance is reduced to writing, the exclusive representative shall be excluded from a hearing if the employee so requests; but any resolution of the grievance shall not be inconsistent with the terms of an existing agreement between the parties.||(b) The right to represent the bargaining unit exclusively and without challenge during the term of the collective bargaining agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an election may be held not more than 180 nor less than 120 days prior to the budget submission date in the year such collective bargaining agreement shall expire.||II. A reasonable number of employees who act as representatives of the bargaining unit shall be given a reasonable opportunity to meet with the employer or his representatives during working hours without loss of compensation or benefits.|||Source. 1975, 490:2, eff. Aug. 23, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:13 - Strikes Prohibited.

    273-A:13 Strikes Prohibited. –||Strikes and other forms of job action by public employees are hereby declared to be unlawful. A public employer shall be entitled to petition the superior court for a temporary restraining order, pending a final order of the board under RSA 273-A:6 for a strike or other form of job action in violation of the provisions of this chapter, and may be awarded costs and reasonable legal fees at the discretion of the court.|||Source. 1975, 490:2, eff. Aug. 23, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:14 - Appeals.

    273-A:14 Appeals. –||Any person aggrieved by a final order of the board granting or denying in whole or in part the relief sought may obtain review of such order in the manner prescribed in RSA 541.|||Source. 1975, 490:2, eff. Aug. 23, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:15 - Actions by or Against Public Employee Organizations.

    273-A:15 Actions by or Against Public Employee Organizations. –||Actions by or against the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit may be brought, without respect to the amount of damages, in the superior court of the county in which it is principally located, or where the plaintiff resides or has its principal place of business, if the plaintiff is a resident of this state or is incorporated in this state.|||Source. 1975, 490:2, eff. Aug. 23, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:16 - Records and Reports.

    273-A:16 Records and Reports. –||I. A copy of all agreements reached as a result of collective bargaining under this chapter shall be filed with the board by the parties within 14 days after execution of said agreement.||II. Except as provided in paragraph IV, all documents and records of the board shall be public records and shall be kept for a minimum of 10 years.||III. The board shall biennially submit a report of its activities to the governor and council.||IV. In adjudicatory hearings conducted by the board, the board's deliberative processes shall be privileged and exempt from the public disclosure provisions of RSA 91-A. Decisions and orders in these adjudicatory hearings, including any prehearing orders required by RSA 541-A:31, V(d), shall be publicly available, but only after they have been reduced to writing, signed by a representative of the board, and served upon the parties.||V. Within 14 days after a legislative body votes on a collective bargaining agreement or a fact finding report, the result of such vote shall be reported by the public employer to the board, which shall maintain a record of such information and provide an annual summary report to the speaker of the house of representatives and the senate president.|||Source. 1975, 490:2. 1979, 374:10. 2005, 278:2, 3, eff. Sept. 20, 2005. 2013, 36:2, eff. June 4, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-A:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-A - Public Employee Labor Relations|Section 273-A:17 - Gifts, Grants, or Donations.

    273-A:17 Gifts, Grants, or Donations. –||The board is authorized to receive any gifts, grants, or donations and to disburse and expend such gifts, grants, and donations.|||Source. 1994, 356:4, eff. July 1, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 273-C:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 273-C - Dog and Horse Racing Employees|Section 273-C:1 - Statement of Purpose.

    273-C:1 Statement of Purpose. –||I. The National Labor Relations Board has declined to exercise jurisdiction over employers who are licensed to operate race tracks. The general court hereby declares that employees of such employers and those employers should have the right to appear before the public employee labor relations board established under RSA 273-A:2 for the purposes set forth under this chapter.||II. The general court hereby confers jurisdiction to the board over such employers and employees for the sole and express purposes set forth in this chapter and the board's powers shall be limited solely and exclusively to the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1990, 214:1, eff. July 31, 1990.|