Management Rights for Law Enforcement Leadership – Mansfield PD

Facts

• Instructors: Alfred P. Donovan, APD Management
• Date: October 20, 2026
• Location: Mansfield Police Department
• Time: 8:30 am - 2:30 pm
• Price: $199.00 USD

Course Overview

This course provides law enforcement managers and supervisors with essential knowledge of labor relations principles—including past practices, mandatory bargaining subjects, impact bargaining, management rights, and workplace rules—enabling them to implement organizational changes lawfully. Topics covered include modifying work schedules, updating policies, assigning new responsibilities, and applying discipline measures. Participants will gain practical skills in navigating mid-term bargaining obligations, managing impact bargaining procedures, documenting decisions for legal protection, and exercising assignment authority while reducing exposure to liability.

SUBJECTS DISCUSSED

• Limiting employees hours of work
• Implementing changes in policy
• Time clocks, assigning new duties
• Changing hours of work: Implementing changes in your workplace
• Implementing discipline
• Impact bargaining strategies
• How to impact bargaining correctly
• When to implement changes
• Documenting to win!
• Recent court cases on Chiefs right to assign
• Truthfulness decisions, mandatory subjects of bargaining

QUESTIONS ANSWERED

• What is a past practice?
• What is a mandatory subject of bargaining?
• What is impact bargaining?
• Why are discussions needed with the Union when they are listed in my managements rights clause?
• What is a work rule?
• What type of changes can I implement without bargaining?
• What is mid-term bargaining?
• What are my assignment rights?