AN ACT RELATIVE TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:
Section 7 of chapter 150E of the General Laws, as most recently amended by section 1 of chapter 198 of the acts of 2011, is hereby further amended by adding the following subsection:-
(e) If the commonwealth has agreed under a collective bargaining agreement with an employee organization to exercise statutory rights of the commonwealth regarding the removal of employees in a certain manner with respect to the members of that employee organization, then the commonwealth shall exercise such rights of removal in accordance with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
Approved, August 6, 2012.