GSB# 2018-2985

UNION# 2018-0228-0025

IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION

Under

THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT

Before

THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD

BETWEEN

Ontario Public Service Employees Union (Rodney)

Union

• and -

The Crown in Right of Ontario (Ministry of the Attorney General)

Employer

BEFORE

Kevin Banks

Arbitrator

FOR THE UNION

Jorge Hurtado Morrison Watts Counsel

FOR THE EMPLOYER

Benjamin Parry Treasury Board Secretariat Legal Services Branch Senior Counsel

HEARING

December 14, 2020

Decision

1The parties have consented to the following order.

2The Union will provide further and better particulars to the Employer of the facts on which it and the grievor rely with respect to her grievance of August 15, 2018. These written particulars are to include not merely legal conclusions but, in addition, the facts which the union and the grievor assert support any such conclusions and demonstrate the breach of the collective agreement alleged. With respect to each act or omission alleged, the particulars shall indicate what was done or not done, when, where, by what means and by whom and, to the extent motivation may be a relevant factor, with what motivation.

3The particulars will be treated as confidential and disclosed only to the extent necessary to enable the Employer to make necessary inquiries for the purposes of these proceedings.

4These particulars are to be provided no later than February 1, 2021.

5This order is without prejudice to any other preliminary matter that the Employer may raise.