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Home My WebLink About1999-1006.Group Grievance Calderm et al.00-11-08 Order o NTARW EMPU) YES DE LA COURONNE CROW"! EMPLOYEES DE L '()NTARW GRIEVANCE COMMISSION DE . . SETTLEMENT REGLEMENT BOARD DES GRIEFS 180 DUNDAS STREET WEST SUITE 600 TORONTO ON M5G 128 TELEPHONElTELEPHONE, (416) 326-1388 180 RUE DUNDAS OUEST BUREAU 600 TORONTO (ON) M5G 128 FACSIMILElTELECOPIE. (416) 326-1396 GSB #1006/99 OPSEU #99B859 IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION Under THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT Before THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD BETWEEN Ontano Pubhc ServIce Employees Umon (Group Gnevance, Calderm et al.) Grievor - and - The Crown m RIght of Ontano (Mimstn of the Attorne, General) Employer BEFORE Darnel Hams Vice Chair FOR THE George RIchards GRIEVOR Semor Gnevance Officer Ontano Pubhc ServIce Employees Umon FOR THE Mehssa Nixon, Counsel EMPLOYER Legal SerVIces Branch Management Board Secretanat HEARING November 7 2000 Board Order On the consent of the partIes, and after heanng the submIssIOns of the partIes, the Board orders as follows In the matter of the gnevances lodged by the Gnevors and the Umon allegIng a vIOlatIOn of the health and safety provIsIOns of the collectIve agreement, wIthout prejUdICe and precedent, the aforementIOned partIes agree to the folloWIng as full and final settlement. 1 The Employer agrees to Implement a new polIcy regardIng the use of names by the staff at the FamIly ResponsIbIlIty Office (FRO) See AppendIx "A" for polIcy 2 The Employer agrees to cIrculate to all employees at FRO a copy of the letter attached at AppendIx "A" whIch sets out the detaIls of the new polIcy 3 The Employer wIll make the follOWIng payments to these gnevors who submItted claims for damages pursuant to the gnevance Kathleen Pugsley $12000 Bruce Pans $480 00 Onel Damels $50 00 Tina PetnccIOne $850 00 Ella Lemessey 5 days VacatIOn CredIt 4 The Employer wIll Inform all staff who may gIve out the names of FRO employees In response to Inqumes form the publIc of the terms of the new polIcy provIded by thIS settlement. Anyone dIscloSIng the name of another FRO bargaInIng umt employee wIll be reqUIred to use the person's 1 st name and I.D number only 5 Where requested by an OPSEU employee, the employer wIll arrange to change all computer system generated letters to pnnt only OPSEU employees' first names and I.D numbers as soon as reasonably possible after such a request. 6 In conSIderatIOn of the above, the Gnevors hereby release and forever dIscharge the Employer ItS employees, agents and servants of, and from all actIOns, causes of actIOns, claims and demands of every nature and kInd, or any other remedy the gnevors or theIr successors, heIrs, admInIstrators or assIgns may have anSIng out of the facts of these gnevances pnor to the date of thIS settlement. 2 7 The Umon and Gnevors wIthdraw the gnevances 8 The lIst of gnevors IS attached at AppendIx "B" 9 The GSB wIll remaIn seIzed to deal wIth the ImplementatIOn of thIS memorandum of settlement. 10 The partIes agree to make thIS Memorandum of Settlement an order of the Gnevance Settlement Board. Dated at Toronto, thIS 8th day of November 2000 Damel HarrIs, Vice-Chair 3 Aooendix A Memorandum To all Employees in the Family Responsibility Office, Ministry of the Attorney General Re Employee Identification Policy November 7 2000 In March 1999 many of you filed gnevances concernIng the Mimstry's commumcatIOns polIcy at the FRO SpecIfically a number of employees were dIssatIsfied wIth the polIcy whIch reqUIred employees to IdentIfy themselves USIng theIr first and last names In both telephone calls and wntten correspondence The gnevances were referred to the GSB and a settlement has now been reached. Under the terms of the settlement, the Mimstry has agreed that the OPSEU employees at FRO should be entItled to an exemptIOn from the polIcy requmng IdentIficatIOn by full name AccordIngly the Issue of employee IdentIficatIOn wIll be dealt wIth In the follOWIng way Telephone Communication As of November 15 2000 employees wIll be reqUIred to IdentIfy themselves on the telephone or on theIr VOIce mall by theIr first name and IdentIficatIOn number or by gIVIng theIr first and last name If they so choose Use of a first name alone IS not an optIOn as members of the publIc are also entItled to have some reasonably clear means of IdentIfYIng an employee of the OPS wIth whom they may have ongOIng busIness Written correspondence (Includingfax and e-mails) Documents prepared for use In court, such as affidaVIts, shall use the employee's full name As of November 15 2000 for all "non-court" documents, employees wIll generally be reqUIred to IdentIfy themselves In the same manner as for telephone commumcatIOn, by USIng an employee's first name and IdentIficatIOn number or last name, If they so choose Where the Mimstry determInes that use of a full name IS reqUIred, for non-court documents, employees wIll use theIr first name and ill number as well as the full name of theIr manager The collectIve agreement reqUIres the partIes to take reasonable measures for the protectIOn of employee health and safety We trust thIS change In polIcy wIll sufficIently address the concerns raised In the gnevances 4 APPENDIX "B" MINISTRY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL GROUP, CALDERM ET AL. OPSEU # 99B859 Evelyn Calderm C Lo John Campbell Bnan MacGIllIvray Jeanne CIOk Danny Marcanelo Ella Chumarow MelIssa LIpson M. Coleman Mary LottI Angle Cordner Seema Kapur Lucy Costa IndIra Kormal Rob Crawford Momca Mar Sandra Cyamwesh Sharon Marcoux Mana De Lard Kenneth McLean PhIlIp Doyle Claire Montalbe DIane Fenech Doen MullIngs Angela Ferguson Deven Patel Bobble Greenham DOmInIC PIccolo LInda Lounsbury DavId Prescod Anna DI Mano Majone Rae Loreen Dharamlall JaISIree Ramcakhan John DownarowIcz JulIana Ramnath Jenny-Lynn Gasparek Rose ROl Samratj e Gokool Carol RobInson Lucy GouveIa Manne RobInson Mary Handley Robert Rotondo Rita Ham Mardos Sadler Sharon Henderson Mira Sclocco Jacquelyn Henry SuzIe Sharma-Hardjal Loretta HerrnsteIn Conme Spence ChnstIne Jeynes Marva St Hilaire-Murrell CynthIa John Nicole Stewart Bob Kerr Pat Thomson LorraIne Khan Andrew Vice Lee KIrby-Walker Doug Wahlberg Orlando Klass Stephen Walsh Uma Konanur FIlomena BomfacIO Bnan KusunokI Michael Brawley Denms Ladouceur Sue Yau Dave LaMarche Ingnd Young Stephen Lau Lucy Yuen ElIzabeth Le CarpentIer-Hughes Cheryl Blair Mane Lajunen Demse Bond HermIma Bacsa Ratna AmerasInghe Jenmfer Au LInda Alexander 5