The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 21 V.S.A. § 1721)
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§ 1721. Purpose
This chapter shall be known as the Vermont Municipal Employee Relations Act. It is
the purpose and policy of this chapter to prescribe the legitimate rights of both
municipal employees and municipal employers in their relations with each other; to
provide orderly and peaceful procedures for preventing the interference by either
with the legitimate rights of the other; to protect the rights of individual employees
to self-organization; to allow individuals to form, join, or assist employee organizations
and to bargain collectively; to define and proscribe practices on the part of employee
organizations and municipal employers which are harmful to the general welfare; and
to protect the rights of the public in connection with labor disputes. (Added 1973, No. 111, § 1.)