Sec. 142.057. STRIKES PROHIBITED  


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  • (a) A police officer employed by a municipality may not engage in a strike or organized work stoppage against this state or the municipality.

    (b) A police officer who participates in a strike forfeits any civil service rights, reemployment rights, and other rights, benefits, or privileges the police officer may have as a result of the officer's employment or prior employment with the municipality.

    (c) This section does not affect the right of a person to cease work if the person is not acting in concert with others in an organized work stoppage.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1193 , Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2005.