SACRAMENTO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION v. CITY OF SACRAMENTO
City's proposal to hire retirees as temporary employees in response to an abrupt shortage in the staffing of the police force, which could not be remedied through the ordinary processes of recruitment and hiring, was a fundamental managerial policy decision designed to maintain the existing level of public safety in the community and was not itself subject to city's duty to meet and confer with union representing officers, even if it represented a change in the status quo with respect to the terms and conditions of employment. Where proposal included principle that nothing in its implementation was to affect the terms and conditions of employment of unit members, the details of implementation were not subject to the duty to meet and confer, and individual unit members who experienced detriment as a result of the proposal's implementation were entitled to whatever remedies existed under grievance process.
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