The applicant municipality sought judicial review of an interest arbitration award that determined wages for its firefighters.
The arbitration panel had adopted a blended approach, relying on both local police wages and freely bargained firefighter wages in a comparable municipality.
The applicant argued this approach breached procedural fairness as it was not advanced by either party and relied on unsubmitted jurisprudence, and that the award was unreasonable.
The Divisional Court dismissed the application, finding that the blended approach was not novel, the parties had the opportunity to make submissions on the relevant comparators, and the resulting award fell within a reasonable range of outcomes.
