Appeal of New Hampshire Retirement System

The petitioner, the New Hampshire Retirement System (NHRS), appeals the decision of the New Hampshire Public Employee Labor Relations Board (PELRB) denying the NHRS’s petition to modify the composition of the respondent, Local 1984, a bargaining unit represented by the State Employees’ Association (SEA), to exclude from the unit certain supervisory positions. See N.H. Admin. Rules, Pub 302.05(a). We reverse and remand.

I

The following facts were found by the PELRB or are otherwise not in dispute. The NHRS is a public employer within the meaning of RSA 273-A:l, IX (Supp. 2014). On September…