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Commission de
règlement des griefs
des employés de la
Couronne
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Toronto (Ontario) M5G 1Z8
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GSB# 2017-3080
UNION# 2017-5112-0291
IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION
Under
THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT
Before
THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD
BETWEEN
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
(Grant) Union
- and -
The Crown in Right of Ontario
(Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services) Employer
BEFORE Felicity D. Briggs Arbitrator
FOR THE UNION Gregg Gray
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Grievance Officer
FOR THE EMPLOYER James Cheng
Treasury Board Secretariat
Centre for Employee Relations
Employee Relations Advisor
HEARING June 27, 2018
-2-
Decision
1. The Employer and the Union at the Toronto South Detention Centre participated
in the Expedited Mediation-Arbitration process in accordance with the negotiated
Protocol. A number of the grievances were settled through that process. However,
this grievance remained unresolved requiring 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. Mr. Tre Grant, Correctional Officer, filed a grievance regarding an allegation of
improper denial of compassionate leave. The matter was scheduled to be heard
at the last med/arb session held over a two-day period in April of 2018. The grievor
did not attend that session and accordingly his grievance was rescheduled to be
heard in the med/arb session held on June 26 and 27, 2018.
3. The local President of the Union sent the grievor an email on May 25th, 2018
informing him that his grievance would be heard at this session and gave him the
option of attending on either day.
4. The grievor failed to attend this session. No reasonable explanation was provided.
5. There is no dispute between the parties that this grievance is appropriate for the
med/arb process.
6. The next med/arb session involving the Union and this facility is to take place on
October 29th and 30th, 2018. The grievor is to attend on one of those days and
participate in the process or his grievance will be deemed to have been withdrawn.
Dated at Toronto, Ontario this 9th day of July, 2018.
“Felicity D. Briggs”
Felicity D. Briggs, Arbitrator