City of Lake Wales v. Public Employees Relations Commission

HOBSON, Acting Chief Judge.

Petitioner City of Lake Wales seeks review of two final administrative orders rendered by the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC). Order No. 80E-153 (case No. 80-1491) defined the appropriate unit of employees of the City’s police department for collective bargaining, directed an election in that unit, and designated managerial/confidential employees. In that order, PERC held that shift command sergeants and the supervisory detective sergeant were neither managerial nor confidential, nor were they “conflict supervisors” and must, therefore, be included in…