GSB# 2019-0568; 2020-1897; 2020-1898; 2020-1899; 2020-1900; 2020-1901

UNION# 2019-0456-0003; 2019-0456-0004; 2020-0456-0001; 2020-0456-0002; 2020-0456-0003; 2020-0456-0004

IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION

Under

THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT

Before

THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD

BETWEEN

Ontario Public Service Employees Union (Colbeck)

Union

• and -

The Crown in Right of Ontario (Ministry of Education)

Employer

BEFORE

Daniel Harris

Arbitrator

FOR THE UNION

Tim Hannigan Ryder Wright Blair & Holmes LLP Counsel

FOR THE EMPLOYER

Debra Kyle Treasury Board Secretariat Legal Services Branch Counsel

HEARING

March 30, 2021

DECISION

1This matter came on for a hearing on March 30, 2021 at Toronto. Having heard the submissions of the parties, the Board hereby orders as follows:

i) Witnesses are excluded from the hearing until such time as it is necessary for them to give their evidence;

ii) Any and all documents produced by the parties will only be used for the purposes of this litigation;

i) The Board shall provide interpretation in the American Sign Language at the hearing to such extent and in such form as the Board deems to be appropriate;

ii) Any documents produced for use in these proceedings by either party shall only be viewed by the parties’ counsel and the persons who are instructing them in this arbitration or who are called as witnesses in this arbitration. A copy of the documents is to be provided by the Board to the translation agency providing the translators for transmittal by the agency to the interpreters to be in attendance at the hearing for the purpose of aiding translation at the hearing. The grievor may receive a copy of any such documents. Any such documents are to be held in strict confidence with no other disclosure of the information to any other individual;

iii) There shall be no other photocopying of these documents, except as may be required to produce copies of a potential exhibit(s) for the hearing and the document shall otherwise remain in the possession of counsel;

iv) Anyone provided with a copy of any such documents, is to be provided with a copy of this order and are to return their copy to counsel at the conclusion of this proceeding;

2The hearing will resume on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at which time the hearing will commence with the parties’ opening statements.