GSB# 2021-0738

UNION# 2021-0526-0019

IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION

Under

THE CROWN EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT

Before

THE GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT BOARD

BETWEEN

Ontario Public Service Employees Union (Singh)

Union

• and -

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

Employer

BEFORE

Dale Hewat

Arbitrator

FOR THE UNION

Jorge Hurtado Morrison Watts Counsel

FOR THE EMPLOYER

Jonathan Rabinovitch Treasury Board Secretariat Counsel

HEARING

December 8, 2021 and January 31, 2022 (by videoconference)

DECISION

1This matter is a grievance filed on behalf of Shanelle Singh (the “Grievor”), alleging wrongful termination from employment. A hearing was held by videoconference on December 8, 2021. The Grievor failed to attend the hearing. On December 13, 2021, I issued a Decision directing the Grievor to provide Union Counsel the reason for her non-attendance by January 13, 2022, failing which this matter may be dismissed.

2On January 31, 2022 a videoconference was held during which the Employer Counsel asked for this matter to be dismissed. Union Counsel stated that he sent an email to the Grievor on December 14, 2021 advising her of my December 13, 2021 Decision and asked her to provide him with a reason for her non-attendance on December 8, 2021. Union Counsel did not hear back from the Grievor and wrote to her again on January 20, 2022 asking her to explain her failure to attend the December 8, 2021 hearing and to provide her explanation by January 24, 2022. In that email he also told the Grievor that a videoconference was scheduled for January 31, 2022 and that if she did not provide a response, that it was likely that her grievance would be dismissed.

3As of today’s date, the Grievor has not contacted Union Counsel despite all of his attempts to reach her. As a result, I find that the Grievor has abandoned her grievance and order that this matter be dismissed.