Borough of Emmaus v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board

DISSENTING OPINION BY

JUDGE COHN JUBELIRER

Respectfully, I believe that whether the volunteer firefighters of the “Emmaus Fire Department”1 (Fire Department), a non-profit corporation, are employees of the Borough of Emmaus must be examined within the extensive statutory framework governing the relationship between *399municipalities and volunteer firefighters in Pennsylvania.2 The General Assembly, by adopting the various statutes concerning volunteer firefighters, has intended to allow volunteer firefighters to exist as a distinct class of firefighters. Harmony Volunteer Fire Co. and Relief Ass’n…