Claremont Police Officers Ass'n v. City of Claremont

*628Opinion

CHIN, J.

In this case, we consider a provision of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA) (Gov. Code,1 § 3500 et seq.), which governs labor-management relations at the local government level. Section 3505 mutually obligates a public employer and an employee organization to meet and confer in good faith about a matter within the “scope of representation” concerning, among other things, “wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment” (§ 3504). A fundamental managerial or policy decision, however, is outside the scope of representation (§ 3504), and is excepted from section 3505’s…