GSB# 2004-3285, 2004-3507, 2004-3597

UNION# 2005-0119-0001, 2004-0119-0028, 2005-0119-0007

IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION

Under

THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT

Before

THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD

BETWEEN

Ontario Public Service Employees Union (Attridge)

Union

• and -

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

Employer

BEFORE

Ken Petryshen

Vice-Chair

FOR THE UNION

Elizabeth Nurse Ryder Wright Blair & Holmes LLP Barristers and Solicitors

FOR THE EMPLOYER

Suneel Bahal Counsel Ministry of Government Services

CONFERENCE CALL

November 23, 2005.

Decision

Ms. K. Attridge has filed three grievances, one of them a discharge grievance, which are scheduled to be heard commencing November 30, 2005. The Employer sought an adjournment of the November 30 hearing date because its advisor has been summonsed to attend a criminal proceeding on that day. The Union opposed the adjournment and a conference call was held on November 23, 2005 to entertain submissions relating to the Employer’s request. After considering the submissions, and for the reasons given during the conference call, I advised counsel that I would grant the Employer’s request to adjourn the November 30 hearing date in the circumstances. In addition to the five remaining hearing days scheduled previously, counsel agreed to add January 25, 2006, as another hearing day.

Dated at Toronto, this 25th day of November, 2005.