GSB# 2020-2059
UNION# 2020-0368-0194
IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION
Under
THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT
Before
THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD
BETWEEN
Ontario Public Service Employees Union (Sullivan)
Union
- and -
The Crown in Right of Ontario (Ministry of the Solicitor General)
Employer
BEFORE
D.J.D Leighton
Arbitrator
FOR THE UNION
Alex Andrews Ontario Public Service Employees Union Grievance Officer
FOR THE EMPLOYER
Caitlyn Borth Treasury Board Secretariat Employee Relations Advisor
HEARING
September 16, 2021
DECISION
1Karen Sullivan, a Correctional Officer 2 at Central East Correctional Centre, grieved on October 26, 2020, that the employer breached the collective agreement and any other applicable law, when it denied her application for a temporary assignment to a pilot project.
2The employer submitted that there was no breach of the collective agreement and the Ministry, accordingly, denied the grievance.
3The parties referred this grievance to mediation/arbitration in accordance with Article 22.16 of the collective agreement. At the outset of the hearing, the parties agreed that I had the jurisdiction to deal with this matter and asked that I issue a decision without precedential value, and without written reasons.
4Having carefully considered, the submissions of the parties on the grievance, as well as the jurisprudence of the Board, I hereby dismiss the grievance.
Dated at Toronto, Ontario this 27th day of September, 2021.