Deputy Who Allegedly Sexually Harassed Colleague Wins Job Back Because...
By Erica Shelley Nelson and Sarah E. Derry In Island County Deputy Sheriff’s Guild, Arbitrator Gary Axon found that the Employer, Island County, lacked just cause to terminate a deputy sheriff who had...
View ArticleCourt Upholds Arbitration Award and Rules Connecticut Police Officer’s Lie...
By: Jim Cline and Geoff Kiernan In Town of Stratford (Connecticut), the City attempted to vacate an arbitration decision that had reinstated a police officer who was discharged for lying to an...
View ArticleIllinois Court upholds Arbitrator’s award to Union after Forest District...
By: Loyd Willaford and Matt Baker In Forest Preserve District of Cook County v. Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 166, two Forest Preservation sergeants challenged the Forest District’s decision to...
View ArticleRight to Mustache’s sustained: Arbitrator Finds That Air Force’s Firefighter...
By: Jim Cline and Clive Pontusson In Department of the Airforce, Arbitrator John Nicholas determined that a government employer had a right to set firefighter mustache standards because they had an...
View ArticleArbitrator Found Oregon Fire District Failed to Gain Union Approval for New...
By Jim Cline and Troy Thornton In Tualatin Fire and Rescue District, 2020 BNA 1300, an Oregon Fire District implemented a 42-hour work schedule following failed negotiations with the International...
View ArticleIllinois Police Union Loses in Arbitration over Bereavement during Scheduled...
By Jim Cline and Troy Thornton In Village of Skokie, 2020 BNA LA 1311, Arbitrator Sinclair Kossoff found that the employer did not violate the CBA when it denied an Officer’s bereavement pay request....
View ArticleVegas Police Officer Loses Law Enforcement Career over Gamble with Department...
By Jim Cline and Troy Thornton Arbitrator Kenneth J. Latsch found that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department had just cause to terminate Officer Raymond Cuevas for accessing the department...
View ArticleCalifornia Deputy’s Oral Inconsistencies about Oral Sex Leads to Sustained...
By Jim Cline and Troy Thornton In Merced Sheriff’s Office, 2020 BNA 1296, Arbitrator Patrick Halter upheld the termination decision of an unnamed Merced County Sheriff’s Deputy. The Deputy was fired...
View ArticleTexas Jailor Union Barred from Pursuing Arbitration due to Grievance Timing
By Jim Cline and Troy Thornton Arbitrator Patrick Halter found that a union representing federal corrections officers in Seagoville, Texas, failed to file a timely grievance on an alleged arbitrator...
View ArticleArbitrator Denies Rookie Pennsylvania Cop Access to Parental Leave
By Jim Cline and Troy Thornton Arbitrator Matthew M. Franckiewicz found that the Employer, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, correctly denied access to paid parental leave to Officer Randy Alexander....
View ArticleLaundry List: California Arbitrator Rules that California Police Department...
By Jim Cline and Stephen Hatton In City of Selma, Arbitrator George Riggs, Jr. held that Selma, California’s Police Department had just cause to terminate an officer who had violated six of its...
View ArticleArbitrator Upholds Termination of Five-Year Ohio Police Officer for Gross...
Jim Cline and Kim Lowe In City of Maumee, Arbitrator Szuter upheld a police officer’s termination for gross incompetence and inefficient performance. Even though Officer A_ was a five-year member of...
View ArticleArbitrator Upholds Termination of 30 Year King County Fire Marshall Caught...
By Jim Cline and Kim Lowe In King County, Arbitrator Latsch upheld the discharge of Deputy Fire Marshall, Mr. A, who was fired after a citizen complained that he drove aggressively in his work vehicle...
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