August 18, 2025
By Jim Cline and Sam Hagshenas
In Minnesota Department of Corrections, an Arbitrator ruled that various Unions failed to demonstrate a binding past practice of paying employees for misallocated overtime when the Employer made errors in overtime distribution.
Filed Under: Contract Interpretation
July 31, 2025
By Jim Cline and Amy Liden
In the City of Poulsbo, the arbitrator ruled the Chief of Police reasonably disciplined a Poulsbo officer with a one-day suspension without pay for issuing a retaliatory parking ticket to his neighbor.
Filed Under: Arbitration Rulings, Discipline, Loudermill
April 29, 2025
By Jim Cline and Sam Hagshenas
In an Arbitration decision between the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office and Ohio Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, the Arbitrator reduced the punishment of a corrections officer who had grabbed the neck of an inmate. At issue was County policy that designated application of force to someone’s neck as “deadly force.”
