Nonmandatory subject of collective bargaining
Matter of Village of Buchanan
One of the items submitted to compulsory interest arbitration by the Buchanan Police Association concerned a demand involving the "minimum time period a floater will work." The demand required a floater to be called in only for full [four day] tours of duty.
PERB affirmed the administrative law judges ruling that this was a nonmandatory subject of collective bargaining as it "interfered with the Village's right to determine the number of police officers on duty at a given time."