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GSB# 2011-2315
UNION# 2011-0119-0005
IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION
Under
THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT
Before
THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD
BETWEEN
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
(Lavereau) 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
Jennifer Charlton
Treasury Board Secretariat
Employee Relations Advisor
HEARING January 28, 2021
-2-
DECISION
[1] Mr. Raymond Lavereau, a Correctional Officer 2 at the Stratford Jail, grieved on
August 23, 2011, alleging that the employer breached Articles 2, and 21 of the
collective agreement when he was disciplined with a 15-day suspension.
[2] The employer submits there has been no breach of the collective agreement but in a
Minutes of Settlement between the Ministry and OPSEU, October 1, 2020 the Ministry
agreed to a reduction of discipline according to a schedule. Anyone with a 15-day
suspension was entitled to have the discipline reduced to thirteen days, and be
reimbursed for the lost wages, minus normal deductions.
[3] 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 precedential value, and without written reasons.
[4] Having carefully considered, the submissions of the parties on the grievances, as well
as the jurisprudence of the Board, I hereby order the employer to reduce the grievor’s
discipline to 13 days and to compensate him accordingly, with lost wages for two days,
minus normal deductions.
Dated at Toronto, Ontario this 20th day of April, 2021.
“D.J.D. Leighton”
_____________________
D.J.D. Leighton, Arbitrator