The applicant hospital sought judicial review of a labour arbitration award regarding the interpretation of early retirement and voluntary exit provisions in a collective agreement.
The arbitration panel found that the benefits must be offered to all employees within a classification based on seniority, rejecting the hospital's past practice of offering them strictly on a full-time to full-time and part-time to part-time basis.
The Divisional Court dismissed the application, holding that the panel's interpretation of the collective agreement and its treatment of past practice evidence were reasonable under the Vavilov framework.
