Michael G. Lutz Lodge No. 5, of the Fraternal Order of Police v. City of Philadelphia

OPINION

Justice TODD.

In this appeal by allowance, we consider the breadth of the authority of an interest arbitration panel acting pursuant to the Policemen and Firemen Collective Bargaining Act (“Act 111”).1 For the reasons that follow, we find that an interest arbitration panel’s authority is limited to addressing issues *329properly submitted to the panel, or those questions reasonably subsumed within those issues. As we conclude the panel in this matter exceeded its authority by speaking to an issue that was neither bargained over, raised in prior related proceedings before the panel, nor…