GSB# 2020-0985

UNION# 2020-0623-0002

IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION

Under

THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT

Before

THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD

BETWEEN

Ontario Public Service Employees Union (Barnard et al)

Union

• and -

The Crown in Right of Ontario (Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry)

Employer

BEFORE

Bram Herlich

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

July 5, 2021

ORDER

1Having regard to the submissions of the parties, I hereby direct the employer to provide a copy of the Investigator’s Report dated April 16, 2019, to union counsel.

2Union counsel may forward a copy of the report to the local union officials, namely Jeremy Verdiel and Len Sedore.

3These three recipients of the report are hereby directed to maintain strict confidentiality with respect to these reports. The reports and their contents are not to be shared with anyone else and these reports are to be used by the recipients only for the purposes of preparing for the instant litigation and for no other purpose.