The fact-finding panel shall base its findings of fact and recommendations upon reliable and credible evidence produced at the hearing, but the panel may not insist on adherence to the legal rules of evidence. The fact-finding panel may request statistical data and reports on its own initiative in addition to the data regularly maintained by the Department of Labor. The panel has the power to administer oaths and to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, records and other evidence relative or pertinent to the issues presented to them.
12- 180 C.M.R. ch. 13, § 33