Seminars

Demystifying the Arbitration Process for Administrative Assistants

This program is designed to assist all administrative assistants who are assigned the task of helping setting up an arbitration hearing.
We will save you significant amounts of time, avoid unnecessary expense (and some possible significant cancellation fees) and give you the confidence to deal with these issues without fear that a mistake will reflect poorly on your ability to do your job.
The speaker, Dan Pearlman, is a Labour Relations Consultant who, amongst his many roles, acts as a nominee on both Rights and Interest Boards of Arbitration. A significant portion of his time is spent training managers in Labour Relations matters and he routinely handles over 100 appointments to Boards of Arbitration each year.

OUTLINE:

  • How do you get to arbitration in the first place.
  • Who is involved in this process?
    • Arbitrators
    • Nominees
    • Legal counsel / consultants
    • the parties themselves
    • grievor
    • intervenor / others who may receive notice including
      1. other employers affected
      2. other unions
      3. the Ministry of Labour
  • The referral to arbitration
    • Appointment of nominees
    • Section 49 Applications
      1. Other single arbitrator appointments
      2. Panels of arbitrators
  • Opening a file.
    • File numbers
    • Contact names
    • Space for billings
  • Selections of a chairman, speed of the process and dates
  • Confirming the dates of the hearings.
  • Reconfirming the dates of the hearings.
  • Cancellation.
    • Why keeping track of these is so important.
    • Documentation involving cancellation.
    • Who can cancel a hearing and on what grounds.
  • What the law says about arbitration awards.
  • Continuation of the hearings and selecting alternate dates.
  • Production of documents and issuing subpoenas.
  • The arbitration award (DRAFT, Interim Awards, Final Awards).
  • Making sure everybody gets paid.
  • Closing the file.

NOTE: For information on presenting this program on an in-house basis,please contact us.