by Contract Number (PDF) - OCSEA
by Contract Number (PDF) - OCSEA
by Contract Number (PDF) - OCSEA
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Muskingum Counties that were consolidated into<br />
a single case. Implicit in the authority to<br />
schedule employees is the ability to alter the<br />
work schedule, subject to the limitations in<br />
Article 13.07 that the work schedule was not<br />
made solely to avoid the payment of overtime.<br />
The Arbitrator found that there was no evidence<br />
that the schedule change was motivated <strong>by</strong> a<br />
desire to avoid overtime; therefore, no violation<br />
of the contract occurred. Based upon the<br />
weather forecast known to the Employer on<br />
February 12, 2007 justifiable reasons existed to<br />
roll into 12 hour shifts. Prior notification under<br />
Article 13.02 was not required. No entitlement<br />
existed that the employees were guaranteed 16-<br />
hour shifts under a snow/ice declaration. The<br />
Employer’s conduct did not violate Section<br />
13.07(2)’s Agency specific language. The snow<br />
storm was a short term operational need. To<br />
conclude that a snow storm is not a short term<br />
need but that rain over an extended period of<br />
time is, would be nonsensical. The record<br />
consisted of over 500 pages of exhibits and three<br />
days of hearing. That record failed to indicate<br />
that the Employer violated the parties’<br />
agreement. 997<br />
Management argued that the grievance<br />
was considerably untimely, since the<br />
cause of action had occurred fifteen<br />
years earlier, when a resident worker<br />
started working as a short order cook.<br />
The grievance was filed on the same<br />
day the cooks were ordered to report to<br />
the new location. The Arbitrator held<br />
that the grievance was timely. The<br />
Arbitrator found there was insufficient<br />
evidence that the reason for giving the<br />
Veterans Hall Kitchen cooking duties to<br />
the Ohio Veterans Home Resident<br />
Workers and changing the work area of<br />
the union cooks to Secrest Kitchen was<br />
to erode the bargaining unit. Members<br />
of the bargaining unit were not<br />
displaced. There were no layoffs.<br />
Members were not deprived of jobs that<br />
were normally available to them. It<br />
appears that the only change was the<br />
work assignment. There was no<br />
evidence of any deprivation of any<br />
economic benefit to membership. The<br />
Arbitrator held that the 1994 grievance<br />
settlement had not been violated. No<br />
bad faith was established. Further, the<br />
short order grilling was de minis in<br />
nature when compared to production<br />
quantity work performed <strong>by</strong> the union<br />
cooks. The subcontracting in these<br />
circumstances had little or no effect on<br />
the bargaining unit, and was permissible<br />
under Article 39.01. 1009<br />
The issue was previously found<br />
arbitrable in Arbitration Decision 989.<br />
The Arbitrator held that the evidence<br />
did not demonstrate that the Agency<br />
possessed the intent to erode the<br />
bargaining unit. Nothing in the arbitral<br />
record suggested that the Agency<br />
exerted less than reasonable effort to<br />
preserve the bargaining unit. The<br />
Arbitrator also held that the record did<br />
not demonstrate that the Agency<br />
intended to withdraw the vacancy to<br />
circumvent the agreement. Constructive<br />
erosion occurs where a new position is<br />
erroneously labeled exempt when it<br />
should have been labeled nonexempt.<br />
Constructive erosion restricts the future<br />
size of a bargaining unit; direct erosion<br />
reduces the present size of a bargaining<br />
unit. The Arbitrator used the label<br />
“hybrid” to explain the nature of the<br />
contested position, reflecting the<br />
presence of both exempt and nonexempt<br />
duties in one position. Furthermore, he<br />
posed that the fundamental issue of the<br />
grievance was: Whether the contested<br />
position was exempt or nonexempt?<br />
Consequently, the Arbitrator proposed a<br />
screening device for hybrid positions<br />
that might be useful in resolving<br />
subsequent classification disputes. This<br />
screening test puts the focus on<br />
essential duties (“Essence Test”):<br />
whether exempt or nonexempt duties<br />
are required in (essential to) daily job<br />
performance. A hybrid position is<br />
exempt if daily job performance entails<br />
exempt duties; a hybrid position is<br />
nonexempt if daily job performance<br />
necessitates nonexempt duties. The<br />
Arbitrator held that exempt duties do<br />
not somehow become nonexempt<br />
merely because bargaining-unit<br />
employees have performed them; nor do<br />
nonexempt duties become exempt<br />
because supervisors perform them. The<br />
Arbitrator’s application of the “Essence<br />
Test” indicated that the contested