Showing posts with label public policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public policy. Show all posts
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Double jeopardy, public policy and a filing on the Seattle consent decree

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Dismissal overturned because of suspension for same offense Arbitrator Michael Paolucci sustained, in substantial part, a grievance filed ...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

Post termination conduct, just cause and public policy

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The saga involving a sheriff's deputy first dismissed for allegedly stealing two potted plants continues. As discussed here ( Arbitrat...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Another unsuccessful public policy challenge to an arbitrator's award

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The City of Cleveland terminated the employment of a police officer for her essentially undisputed actions of stabbing a romantic partner. ...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

February Quick Hits

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USM followed contract in layoff of faculty Arbitrator Mark Irvings largely rejected a grievance filed by the Associated Faculties of the...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Arbitrator's finding that police officer's use of force was reasonable precludes public policy challenge to reinstatement award

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On March 30, 2012, Arbitrator  Jane Wilkinson  ordered the reinstatement of Portland police officer Ronald Frashour. Officer Frashour had be...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Arbitrator's award that cba precludes discipline of employee on union leave found contrary to public policy

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Grievant was employed as a bus driver with the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority. He worked as a bus operator for four...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Connecticut Supreme Court clarifies use of public policy in challenges to arbitration awards

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Since first recognizing a public policy exception to the general rule of deference to arbitrator's awards, the Connecticut Supreme Court...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Police officers, "untruthfulness" and public policy

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A police officer's claimed "untruthfulness" and the dictates of public policy have been the subject of previous posts  here   ...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Medical marijuana, arbitration and the courts

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In two recent decisions courts have vacated arbitrators' awards reinstating employees dismissed for use of marijuana. Both cases discuss...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Does public policy require termination of a state trooper who had a sexual encounter with a domestic violence victim?

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The Supreme Court of Alaska has rejected a public policy challenge to the decision of an arbitrator upholding a grievance filed on behalf of...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Reinstatement of police officer who used "unreasonable and unnecessary" force not violative of public policy

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Grievant was employed as a police officer for the City of Owasso, OK. His employment was terminated after the City accused him of engaging i...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Seventh Circuit: Arbitrator's award ordering company to pay Local Union President and Benefits Representative violates public policy

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Titan Tire purchased a tire manufacturing facility in late 2005. It subsequently entered into a cba with the Steelworkers. Until October of ...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Arbitration, Management Rights and Public Policy

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 Lawrence, Mass. Firefighters, Local 146 grieved the actions of the City of Lawrence in laying off a  dispatcher while retaining a mechanic ...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Public policy, professors and firefighters

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Two recent cases reach differing results in addressing requests to set aside arbitration awards as contrary to public policy. In Slippery ...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Professor Drummonds on the public policy exception to enforcement of arbitration awards

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Professor Henry Drummonds has written an article analyzing the current status of the public policy exception to the enforcement of arbitrati...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Portland ordered to comply with reinstatement award

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The Oregon Employment Relations Board (ERB) has ordered the City of Portland to comply with the award of Arbitrator Jane Wilkenson that fou...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Labor Arbitration in the Courts

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General non-discrimination clause does not waive litigation rights, Pyett inapplicable In Ibarra v. United Parcel Service  the Fifth Circu...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Arbitration award reinstating police officer found to have engaged in domestic violence deemed contrary to public policy

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An appellate court in Illinois has affirmed the lower court’s decision to set aside, on public policy grounds, an award reinstating a pol...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Award overturned as contrary to public policy of non-discrimination

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The North Andover Eagle Tribune has an article reporting on the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision upholding the setting aside of an arbi...