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GSB# 2018-3487
UNION# 2018-0467-0023
IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION
Under
THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT
Before
THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD
BETWEEN
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
(Cranley) Union
- and -
The Crown in Right of Ontario
(Ministry of the Solicitor General) Employer
BEFORE
D.J.D. Leighton
Arbitrator
FOR THE UNION
Dan Sidsworth
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Grievance Officer
FOR THE EMPLOYER Sia Romanidis
Treasury Board Secretariat
Employee Relations Advisor
HEARING October 1, 2019
-2-
DECISION
[1] Mr. Mike Cranley, a Correctional Officer at the Quinte Detention Centre, filed a
grievance on November 16, 2018, alleging that the employer breached the
collective agreement by wrongly disciplining him with a seven-day suspension.
He seeks full redress and to have any record of the suspension removed from his
file. The employer submitted that there was just cause for the discipline and no
violation of the collective agreement.
[2] The parties referred this grievance to mediation/arbitration in accordance with
Article 22.16 of the collective agreement. At the outset of the hearing, the parties
agreed that I had the jurisdiction to deal with this matter. They asked that I issue
a decision without precedent or prejudice, and without written reasons.
[3] Having carefully considered the submissions of the parties, as well as the
jurisprudence of the Board, I have decided to deny the grievance and it is hereby
dismissed.
Dated at Toronto, Ontario this 13th day of March, 2020.
“D.J.D. Leighton”
________________________
D.J.D. Leighton, Arbitrator