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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1976-0037.Andrews.77-02-0337176 CROWN EMPLOYEES 416 964-6426 Suite 405 GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT 77 BZoor Street hkst $OARlY TORONTO, Ckkz& M5S lM.2 IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION Under The CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT Before THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD Between: Before: Mr. G. Andrews - And - Ministry of Agriculture & Food D. M. Beatty - Chairman G. Griffin - Member H. E. Weisbach - Member For the Grievor Mr. N. Luczay Ontario Public Service Employees Union For the Employer Mr. R. G. Johnson, Associate Director Personnel Administration Ministry of Agriculture & Food Hearing January 24, I977 Suite 405, 77 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario -2- In the grievance he filed with this Board, Mr. G. Andrews complained that he was, as an Agricultural Technician 2, improperly classified, Succinctly, it was Mr. Andrew's position that in his position as "Technician in charge of Dairy Cattle" at the Ridgetown College of Agricultural Technology, which operates under this Ministry's Research and Education Services Division, he performed the functions of an Agricultural Technician 3. After receiving and listening to the evidence adduced by the parties, and after entertaining their arguments following therefrom, this Board recessed the proceedings, and after further deliberations, reconvened the hearing to advise the parties orally of the fact of and reasons for our decision, At the outset, we advised the parties that where, as here, a grievance did not raise any substantial issue of principle, did not have any precedential value to the parties, and where this Board intended to simply apply settled criteria and reasoning articulated in earlier awards, it was, and until persuaded otherwise, will remain our practice, which is followed daily in our courts of criminal and civil jurisdiction, to issue oral awards at the conclusion of the hearing. So advised, and relying on the criteria we have earlier set out in Re Rounding et al 18/75;Re Vukoje 13/?5 and Re: !zhompson 7/76, this Board informed the parties that .‘i P- -3- on the evidence adduced, which was not in serious dispute between them, and agaip5.l. t/it, Class Standards for the position in question, that Mr. Andrews is, in his present duties, in our opinion properly classified as an Agricultural Technician 2. In the result and for the reasons outlined in more detail at the hearing, this grievance is denied. Dated at Toronto this 3rd day of February 1977. . D. M Beatty Chairman I COnCUP G. Griffin Member I corlcw H. E. Weisbach Member