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Home My WebLink About2007-1773.McGann et al.09-04-14 Decision Commission de Commission de Crown Employeess Grievance Settlement Grievance Settlement règlement des griefs règlement des griefs BoardBoard des employés de la des employés de la Couronne Couronne Suite 600 Suite 600 Bureau 600 Bureau 600 180 Dundas St. West 180 Dundas St. West 180, rue Dundas Ouest 180, rue Dundas Ouest Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8 Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8 Toronto (Ontario) M5G 1Z8 Toronto (Ontario) M5G 1Z8 Tel. (416) 326-1388 Tel. (416) 326-1388 Tél. : (416) 326-1388 Tél. : (416) 326-1388 Fax (416) 326-1396 Fax (416) 326-1396 Téléc. : (416) 326-1396 Téléc. : (416) 326-1396 GSB#2007-1773 GSB#2007-1773 UNION#2007-0526-0016UNION#2007-0526-0016 Additional Files ? AppeAdditional Files ? Appendices ?A? and ?B? ndices ?A? and ?B? IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION UUnnddeerr THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTHE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT TIVE BARGAINING ACT BBeeffoorree THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD BETWEENBETWEEN Ontario Public Service Employees Union Ë²·±² (McGann et al.) - and - The Crown in Right of Ontario (Ministry of the Attorney General) Employer BEFOREOwen V. Gray Vice-Chair FOR THE UNIONAnastasios Zafiriadis Stephen Giles Grievance Officers OPSEU FOR THE EMPLOYER Len Hatzis Counsel Ministry of Government Services HEARINGApril 8, 2009 DECISION Files included in these proceedings ÅïÃ×² ³§ ¼»½··±² ±º Ü»½»³¾»® ïô îððèô × ²±¬»¼ ¬¸¿¬ ¬¸»®» ©»®» ¬¸»² éí ¹®·»ª¿²½» ½¸»¼«´»¼ ¬± ¾» ¸»¿®¼ ¿²¼ ¼»¬»®³·²»¼ ¾§ ³» ·² ¬¸»» °®±½»»¼·²¹ô ¿´´ ±º ©¸·½¸ ®¿·» ·«» ±º ±²» µ·²¼ ±® ¿²±¬¸»® ½±²½»®²·²¹ ß°°»²¼·¨ íî ¬± ¬¸» ½±´´»½¬·ª» ¿¹®»»³»²¬ ¿²¼ñ±® «¾»¯«»²¬ ¿¹®»»³»²¬ ±º ¬¸» °¿®¬·» ½±²½»®²·²¹ ß°°»²¼·¨ íîò Þ»¬©»»² ¬¸¿¬ ¼¿¬» ¿²¼ ¬¸» ²»¨¬ ¸»¿®·²¹ ±º ß°®·´ èô îððç ¬¸» °¿®¬·» ¿¼¼»¼ è ¹®·»ª¿²½» ¬± ¬¸» ´·¬ò Ì¸» ¹®·»ª±® ²¿³» ¿²¼ º·´» ²«³¾»® º±® ¬¸±» ¿¼¼»¼ º·´» ²±© ¿°°»¿® ¿¬ ¬¸» »²¼ ±º ¬¸» ´·¬ ·² üÍÍØÏÙÔÅjüiÉÎÉÕÔÊÙØÚÔÊÔÎÏéÕËØØÎ×ÉÕØÖËÔØÇÜÏÚØÊÑÔÊÉØÙÔÏÉÕÜÉÜÍÍØÏÙÔÅnöêû ÷ÔÑØÊ ÜÏÙ nÆØËØÙÔÊÐÔÊÊØÙÎËÜÑÑÄÜÉÉÕØÕØÜËÔÏÖÎ× ß°®·´ èô îððçô ¿ ²±¬»¼ ¿²¼ ½±²º·®³»¼ ·² ¬¸· ¼»½··±²ò ÅîÃß¬ ¬¸» ¸»¿®·²¹ ±º ß°®·´ èô îððçô × ©¿ ¿¼ª·»¼ ¬¸¿¬ ¬¸» °¿®¬·» ¸¿¼ ¿¹®»»¼ ¬¸¿¬ × ¸±«´¼ ¿´± ¸»¿® ¿²¼ ¼»¬»®³·²» ¬¸» ¹®·»ª¿²½»ÑÔÊÉØÙÔÏüÍÍØÏÙÔÅjûiéÕÎÊØÖËÔØÇÜÏÚØÊ ©»®» ¼·³·»¼ ±®¿´´§ ¿¬ ¬¸» ¸»¿®·²¹ ±º ß°®·´ èô îððçô ¿ ²±¬»¼ ¿²¼ ½±²º·®³»¼ ´¿¬»® ·² ¬¸· ¼»½··±²ò Applicability of Article 22.16 ÅíÃéÕØÍÜËÉÔØÊÜÖËØØÉÕÜÉÏÎÏØÎ×ÉÕØÖËÔØÇÜÏÚØÊÛØ×ÎËØÐØÔÊÜlÈÏÔÎÏÖËÔØÇÜÏÚØ ÆÔÉÕÚÎËÍÎËÜÉØÍÎÑÔÚÄÔÐÍÑÔÚÜÉÔÎÏÊkÎËÚÎÏÚØËÏÊlÙÔÊÐÔÊÊÜÑÊØÅÈÜÑÕÜËÜÊÊÐØÏÉÜÏÙÎË ÕÈÐÜÏËÔÖÕÉÊkÆÔÉÕÔÏÉÕØÐØÜÏÔÏÖÎ×üËÉÔÚÑØ Î×ÉÕØÍÜËÉÔØÊiÚÎÑÑØÚÉÔÇØ ¿¹®»»³»²¬ò ß½½±®¼·²¹´§ô ß®¬·½´» îîòïê ©±«´¼ ¿°°´§ ¬± ¬¸» ¸»¿®·²¹ ¿²¼ ¼»½··±² ³¿µ·²¹ °®±½» «²´» ¬¸» °¿®¬·» ¸¿ª» ¿¹®»»¼ ±¬¸»®©·»ò Ì¸» »³°´±§»® ¿§ ¬¸» °¿®¬·» ¸¿ª» ¿¹®»»¼ ±¬¸»®©·»ô ©·¬¸ ¬¸» ®»«´¬ ¬¸¿¬ ¬¸»» ³¿¬¬»® ¿®» ¬± ¾» ¼»¿´¬ ©·¬¸ ·² ¿½½±®¼¿²½» ÆÔÉÕÉÕØlËØÖÈÑÜËÜËÛÔÉËÜÉÔÎÏÍËÎÚØÙÈËØk¬± ©¸·½¸ ¿®¬·½´» îîòïêòê ®»º»®ò Ì¸» «²·±² ¼»²·» ¬¸¿¬ ¬¸»®» ¸¿ ¾»»² «½¸ ¿² ¿¹®»»³»²¬ò Þ±¬¸ °¿®¬·» ¿¹®»»ô ¸±©»ª»®ô ¬¸¿¬ × ¸±«´¼ »¨°´±®» ¬¸» °±·¾·´·¬§ ±º ³»¼·¿¬»¼ »¬¬´»³»²¬ ©¸»®» °±·¾´»ô ¿²¼ ¬¸¿¬ × ¸±«´¼ ¾» ·²¬»®ª»²¬·±²·¬ ·² ½±²¼«½¬·²¹ ¬¸» ¸»¿®·²¹ò Ì¸»§ ¿´± ¿¹®»» ¬¸¿¬ ¼»½··±² ·² ¬¸»» ÍËÎÚØØÙÔÏÖÊÆÔÑÑÕÜÇØlÍËØÚØÙØÏÉÔÜÑÇÜÑÈØkÏÎÉÆÔÉÕÊÉÜÏÙÔÏÖÜËÉÔÚÑØ éÕØ ¯«»¬·±² ©¸»¬¸»® ¬¸» °¿®¬·» ¼·¼ ±® ¼·¼ ²±¬ ¬± ¿¹®»» ¬± »¨½´«¼» ¬¸»» °®±½»»¼·²¹ - 2 - ¿´¬±¹»¬¸»® º®±³ ¬¸» °®±½» ½±²¬»³°´¿¬»¼ ¾§ ¿®¬·½´» îîòïê ³¿§ ¾» ¿¼¼®»»¼ ¿¬ ¿ ´¿¬¬»® ¼¿¬»ò The ?Slat et al.? 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Files 2007-3632, 2007-3739 and 2008-0203 ÅèÃÌ¸» »³°´±§»® ®»¯«·®» ¬¸¿¬ Ú´»¨·¾´» íÜËÉÉÔÐØÚÑÜÊÊÔ×ÔØÙl÷íékØÐÍÑÎÄØØÊ ®»°±®¬ ¬¸»·® ¸±«® ±º ©±®µò Í·²½» »¿®´§ îððè ·¬ ¸¿ ®»¯«·®»¼ ¬¸¿¬ ¬¸· ®»°±®¬ ¾» ³¿¼» ±² ¿ ¼¿·´§ ¬·³» ¸»»¬ò Û¿½¸ ¸»»¬ ¸¿ ¿ ½±´«³² ±º ²¿³» ±º ÚÐÌ »³°´±§»» ¿¬ ¬¸» ´»º¬ò Ì± ·¬ ®·¹¸¬ ¿®» ½±´«³² ·² ©¸·½¸ ¬¸» »³°´±§»» ·ÉÎÔÏÊØËÉlæÎËÒÊÉÜËÉÉÔÐØklæÎËÒØÏÙ ÉÔÐØklñÈÏÚÕÙÈËÜÉÔÎÏkléÎÉÜÑõËÊúÎÈËÉkéÎÉÜÑõËÊüÙÐÔÏkéÎÉÜÑõËÊæÎËÒØÙk lêÉÜ××êÔÖÏÜÉÈËØkÜÏÙlúÎÐÐØÏÉÊúÑÜËÔ×ÔÚÜÉÔÎÏküÉÜÏÄÍÜËÉÔÚÈÑÜËÆÎËÒÑÎÚÜÉÔÎÏÉÕØËØ ³¿§ ¾» ±²»ô ¬©± ±® ¬¸®»» ÚÐÌ ·¹² ·² ¸»»¬ º±® »¿½¸ ¼¿§ô ¼»°»²¼·²¹ ±² ¬¸» ²«³¾»® ±º ÚÐÌ »³°´±§»» »³°´±§»¼ ¿¬ ¬¸¿¬ ´±½¿¬·±²ò Ì¸» ¸»»¬ ¿®» ¹¿¬¸»®»¼ «° ¿¬ ¬¸» »²¼ ±º ¬¸» ¼¿§ò Ì¸» »³°´±§»® «» ¬¸»³ º±® °¿§®±´´ ¿²¼ ±¬¸»® °«®°±»ò ÅçÃÌ¸®»» ±º ¬¸» ¹®·»ª¿²½» ¾»º±®» ³» ½±²½»®² ¬¸»» ·¹² ·² ¸»»¬ò ò éøí÷ô Ý®±©² Û³°´±§»» Ý±´´»½¬·ª» Þ¿®¹¿·²·²¹ ß½¬ô ÍòÑò ïççíô ½ò íèò ï - 4 - ÅïðÃéÕØÈÏÔÎÏiÊÍËØÕØÜËÔÏÖÍÜËÉÔÚÈÑÜËÊÎ×ÉÕØÖËÎÈÍÖËÔØÇÜÏÚØÔÏûÎÜËÙ÷ÔÑØ - 5 - [12] The union's pre-hearing particulars of the group grievance in Board File # 2008- 0203 are as follows: The grievors have repeatedly requested that they be provided with copies of daily sign in and sign out sheets so that they may keep track of hours worked and submitted to the Employer for payment. In the past, some grievors have experienced discrepancies between the hours they work and keep of track of personally, and the hours recorded by the Employer. They wish, therefore, to keep copies of the attendance sheets used by the Employer to calculate hours, in order to be able to check that the hours they work are correctly recorded and remunerated. The Employer has consistently refused to make these attendance sheets available for copying and em ails of February 12 and 19, 2008, manager Jennifer Lee expressly forbade employees to make copies of the sheets and stated that employees would not be provided with copies. Remedy: Access to copy or receive copies of the attendance sheets. [13] These grievances raise two general issues: that the employer reqUIres FPT employees to do something that it does not require unclassified and regular classified employees to do, and that the employees are not permitted copies of the sheets on which they record their information. Although the particulars of the grievance in Board File #2007-3739 hint at concern about the limited access that other employees have to the information that an employee enters on the sheets, this was not pressed in argument. Indeed, the union argued that employees' having photocopies of other employees' information would provide desirable transparency. [14] The employer says that all employees who work in courtrooms, whether they are regular classified, Flexible Part-time classified or unclassified, are required to fill in daily sign in sheets on which they must record their start time, end time, lunch duration and total time worked. Notwithstanding what had been said in the union's particulars of the grievance in Board File #2007-3739, the union's representatives were able to verify and agree that these facts are true, that all other courtroom employees are required to fill in sign in sheets that are similar in form and content to the FPT sign in sheets, except that only FPT employees asked to record an allocation of time worked as between Court time and Admin time. - 6 - [15] The employer stated that FPT employees are the only ones asked to record that allocation because FPT employees are the only employees for whom it is pertinent. It is pertinent because although the union has agreed that the employer can assign FPT employees to work inside or outside the courtroom as needed, it has obtained the employer's agreement that "the primary work of courtroom staff will be working in the courtroom as described in their job specifications." To assist it in verifying its compliance with that obligation, the employer asks FPT employees to say how much of their work time they think they spent doing work outside the courtroom. The union's representatives agreed that the information is pertinent with respect to FPT employees and not with respect to other employees. They were unable to explain how it is unreasonable to require that FPT employees record that information. [16] In the circumstances, the union did not pursue the grievances except in so far as they assert that the employer should provide each employee who so requests with a photocopy of each sign in sheet on which that employee has entered information about her or his hours of work. That was the only point on which I had to rule. [17] The employer says, and the union does not dispute, that it does not prohibit employees from making their own notes about the data they have entered on the sign in sheets, provided they do so on their own time. It does not provide employees with photocopies of sign in sheets, and does not permit employees to make such photocopies using the employer's time, equipment or supplies. The cost of providing photocopies is not something it wishes to bear. It argues that nothing in the collective agreement requires that it do so. [18] Much of the union's argument on this issue focused on the relative evidentiary value of photocopies as compared with notes that employees might make themselves, beginning with the premise that what the employee has entered on a sign in sheet may be surreptitiously altered after the employee enters it and before the employer relies on the entry to calculate the employee's pay. The union did not provide any pre-hearing particulars about pay discrepancies that could have been avoided or resolved more expeditiously if photocopies had been provided, nor about the extent to which any such - 7 - discrepancies have ever been the result of surreptitious alteration of documents provided by the allegedly underpaid employee. The premise that documents can be altered also applies to photocopies. [19] The issue for arbitration here, however, is whether the employer is obliged to provide photocopies, not whether the employer is mistaken in judging for itself the relative costs and benefits of doing so voluntarily. This issue does not turn on a debate about the likely evidentiary value of photocopies relative to that of contemporaneous handwritten notes of the same data (which would in each case depend, I note, on the credibility of the employee who made and kept custody of the notes or photocopy.) [20] The union was unable to point to any provision of the collective agreement that expressly requires that the employer provide photocopies of these or any other records the employer asks employees to make concerning their employment. The union's representatives argued that such an obligation arises from the obligation to pay for work done. I did not accept that argument. [21] Like the submissions about evidentiary value, this submission confuses the obligation itself with the things that might become pertinent if a dispute arose about whether the obligation had been breached. If an employee grieves that the employer has not paid for all of his or her hours worked, then the employer, the union and the employee would all be obliged to promptly provide disclosure of all facts pertinent to the dispute: Article 22.14.4. If the employer's position in such a dispute is that it has paid the employee in accordance with the information provided by that employee in the sign in sheets, then those contents of those sheets would be pertinent and the employer could be expected to produce them for the inspection of the grievor and the union "at the earliest stage of the grievance procedure" (Article 22.14.5). (Indeed, the employer has told this Board that it retains those documents for just that purpose long after they are needed for preparation of payroll.) Likewise, the union and the employee would be expected to promptly produce any contemporaneous notes the employee may have made about her/his hours worked in the period in issue. Any delay by anyone in disclosing the pertinent portions of such documents would waste everyone's time and money, - 8 - including their own, and arouse justifiable suspicion about the merits of their position. Nevertheless, the fact that the documents will have to be produced promptly if a dispute arises to which they are relevant does not support the inference that those who will retain the documents must provide copies to the others at any time before a dispute has arisen. [22] For these reasons, I ruled orally that I was dismissing the grievances in so far as they claimed that the employer was obliged to give employees copies of sign in sheets. The parties then reviewed the grievances and agreed that the combined effect of that ruling and the earlier withdrawal by the union was that no dispute remained between the parties concerning the grievances in Board Files 2007-3632, 2007-3739 and 2008- 0203. I confirm that those grievances are dismissed in their entirety. [23] The remaining grievances stand adjourned to subsequent hearing dates. Dated at Toronto this 14th day of April, 2009. ~v Vice Chair GSB# 2007-1682 2007-1773 2007-2463 2007-3133 2007-3248 2007-3357 2007-3366 2007-3367 2007-3368 2007-3370 2007-3371 2007-3372 2007-3373 2007-3374 2007-3375 2007-3377 2007-3378 2007-3379 2007-3380 2007-3381 2007-3382 2007-3383 2007-3632 2007-3729 2007-3733 2007-3734 2007-3735 2007-3736 2007-3737 2007-3738 2007-3739 2007-3824 2007-4035 2007-4036 2007-4037 2007-4038 2007-4039 2007-4040 2008-0015 2008-0016 2008-0017 2008-0018 2008-0019 2008-0020 Appendix 'A' Union# 2007 -0228-0050 2007 -0526-0016 2007 -0212-0026 2007 -0119-0016 2007 -0228-0055 2007 -0130-0004 2008-0205-0002 2008-0205-0003 2008-0205-0011 2008-0205-0013 2008-0205-0014 2008-0205-0015 2008-0205-0016 2008-0205-0017 2008-0205-0018 2008-0205-0020 2008-0205-0004 2008-0205-0005 2008-0205-0006 2008-0205-0007 2008-0205-0008 2008-0205-0009 2008-0228-0005 2007 -0212-0029 2008-0212-0001 2008-0212-0002 2008-0212-0003 2008-0212-0004 2008-0212-0005 2008-0212-0006 2008-0228-0006 2008-0453-0002 2007 -0526-0029 2007 -0526-0030 2007-0526-0031 2007-0526-0032 2007 -0526-0033 2007-0526-0034 2008-0205-0027 2008-0205-0028 2008-0205-0029 2008-0205-0030 2008-0205-0031 2008-0205-0032 Grievor Jolicoeur, Brenda McGann, Dag Cho, Kellen Gibbon, Linda Caschera, Jessica Mehlenbacher, Francine Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Antoniak, Stephanie Kiss, Juliana Iacobucci, Anna Terpou, Beverly larusso, Terri Young, Elaine Godard, Maureen Hollingsworth, Marlene Dolan, Krystyne Marceau, Heather Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Godard, Maureen Markell, Lynn Schacherl, Susette Giannopoulos, Tina Thakurdin, Annie Caguioa, Petronila Boyes, Chuck Janu, Ivana Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey 2008-0021 2008-0022 2008-0193 2008-0194 2008-0195 2008-0196 2008-0197 2008-0198 2008-0201 2008-0203 2008-0280 2008-0402 2008-0744 2008-0745 2008-0746 2008-0795 2008-0796 2008-0797 2008-0803 2008-0805 2008-0880 2008-0955 2008-0956 2008-1464 2008-1702 2008-1796 2008-1821 2008-1822 2008-1823 2008-2094 2008-2398 2008-2399 2008-2602 2008-2603 2008-2688 2008-2689 2008-2966 2008-2967 - 2 - 2008-0205-0033 2008-0205-0034 2008-0212-0012 2008-0212-0013 2008-0212-0014 2008-0212-0015 2008-0212-0016 2008-0212-0017 2008-0228-0011 2008-0228-0013 2008-0212-0018 2008-0526-0003 2008-0212-0019 2008-0212-0020 2008-0601-0002 2008-0212-0021 2008-0212-0022 2008-0212-0023 2008-0228-0020 2008-0228-0022 2008-0205-0040 2008-0205-0085 2008-0205-0086 2008-0212-0025 2008-0205-0088 2008-0310-0007 2008-0212-0026 2008-0212-0027 2008-0212-0028 2008-0526-0012 2008-0212-0030 2008-0212-0031 2008-0710-0001 2008-0710-0002 2008-0212-0032 2008-0212-0033 2008-0212-0034 2008-0212-0035 Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Marceau, Heather Motiak, Ginette Gautier, Janet Jolicoeur, Brenda Hollingsworth, Marlene Nosova, Larissa Motiak, Ginette Royer, Raymond Chenier-Tulonen, Denise Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Humphries, Tammy Amador, Deborah Pecaric, Anne Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Wilson, Jeffrey Hollingsworth, Marlene Campell, Laurel Elaine Duvall, Deborah Hollingsworth, Marlene Reid, John Motiak, Ginette Lam, Maria Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene McKinnon, Trudy McKinnon, Trudy Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene Hollingsworth, Marlene GSB# 2007-2079 2007-2080 2007-2081 2007-2082 2007-2083 2007-2084 Appendix '8' Union# 2007 -0551-0008 2007 -0551-0009 2007 -0551-0010 2007-0551-0011 2007 -0551-0012 2007 -0551-0013 Grievor Slat, Lydia Morsillo (Zuccarini), liliana Arturi (Iozzo), Antonia Castiello, Tina Pineau, Michelle Bortolus, Mara