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IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION
Under
THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT
Before
THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD
BETWEEN
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
(Prestage) Union
- and -
The Crown in Right of Ontario
(Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services) Employer
BEFORE Felicity D. Briggs Vice-Chair
FOR THE UNION Jackie Crawford
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Grievance Officer
FOR THE EMPLOYER Greg Gledhill
Treasury Board Secretariat
Centre for Employee Relations
Employee Relations Advisor
HEARING October 7, 2014
- 2 -
Decision
[1] The Employer and the Union at the Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre agreed to
participate in the Expedited Mediation-Arbitration process in accordance with the
negotiated Protocol. Many of the grievances were settled through that process. However,
a few grievances remained unresolved and therefore require a decision from this Board.
The Protocol provides that decisions will be issued within a relatively short period of
time after the actual mediation sessions and will be without reasons. Further, the decision
is to be without prejudice and precedent.
[2] Richard Prestage is a CO2 who has worked in this capacity for approximately thirty
years. He filed a grievance that alleged the Employer has violated the Collective
Agreement because it has failed to progress him to the CO3 wage grid in the Collective
Agreement. In his view, the CO3 grid is a merit pay scheme and he ought to have been
moved to this classification given his experience and years of service.
[3] The grievance cannot be upheld. This Board has no jurisdiction to entertain classification
grievances. There was no dispute between the parties regarding my jurisdiction.
However, the grievor urged that there must be some purpose to having a CO3 wage grid
in the Collective Agreement and he should be entitled to that level of compensation.
[4] The grievance is dismissed.
Dated at Toronto, Ontario this 15th day of October 2014.
Felicity D. Briggs, Vice-Chair