GSB# 1936/95, 0756/96, 0762/96, 2145/96, 2146/96, 2147/96, 2148/96, 2149/96, 2150/96

UNION# 95G287, 95G288, 95G289, 95G290, 95G291, 96D704, 96D703, 96H206, 96H205, 96H204, 96H203, 96H202, 96H199, 96H200

IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION

Under

THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT

Before

THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD

BETWEEN

Ontario Public Service Employees Union (Slusarchuk)

Grievor

• and -

The Crown in Right of Ontario (Ministry of Community and Social Services)

Employer

BEFORE

Owen V. Gray Vice-Chair

FOR THE UNION

Kathleen Lawrence Grievance Officer Ontario Public Service Employees Union

FOR THE EMPLOYER

Lisa Nowak Coordinator, Employee Relations Ministry of Community, Family and Children’s Services

HEARING

January 30, 2003.

DECISION

1By Order dated December 18, 2002, this Board (differently constituted) ordered as follows:

1. The grievor will be provided one final opportunity to appear before the Grievance Settlement Board in regard to these matters on January 30, 2003. Her failure to attend that hearing, barring exceptional circumstances, will be grounds to dismiss the matter.

2. The grievor is advised that she is represented in this proceeding by the Union, not a private solicitor. In the circumstances of this case, the grievor has no right to be represented by private counsel.

3. With the consent of all parties, the hearing on January 30, 2003, will proceed before Vice-Chair Owen Gray.

2The hearing in these matters was scheduled for hearing on Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. at the Board’s premises. Representatives of the employer and the union attended at that time and place. The grievor did not attend at 10:00 a.m., nor within 45 minutes thereafter. The union’s representative advised me that at the grievor’s request the union had been communicating with her through the offices of her M.P.P., that notice of the Board’s order of December 18, 2002 and of the time and place of the hearing provided for in that order had been given to the grievor by that means, and that the M.P.P.’s office had confirmed receipt thereof by the grievor. Thereafter, neither the employer nor the union had heard from the grievor.

3As it appeared that there were no exception circumstances, I dismissed these grievances orally, in accordance with the order of December 18, 2002. This written decision confirms that disposition.