Selection of Panel. The FOP and the Commonwealth will select their respective Co-Chairpersons. The position of Acting Chairperson for each Joint State Committee meeting will be alternately filled by each side. Each Co-Chairperson shall select his/her panel members to hear each case on the docket. Any Joint State Committee panel hearing a case shall consist of three representatives designated by each party, and at all times shall consist of an equal number of Commonwealth and FOP representatives. In the event any case on the docket affects the work location of any member of the panel, then such panel member shall be removed from the panel for that case and the appropriate Co- Chairperson shall designate another member of his/her group to the Committee to hear that particular case. No representative of either side who participated in the prior hearing of the case at Step 1 shall be permitted to act as a member of the panel hearing the case at Step 2.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
