Grievance Information Detail

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• 0504

Contract Violations

Holding

MODIFIED. Grievant, a Youth Leader with the Training Center for Youth, was removed for physically abusing a youth by striking him with his fist and hitting him with a chair. The Union contended that Grievant merely restrained an out-of-control youth and that victim provided different versions of the incident. Other witnesses statements were amended and contradictory. Eyewitness accounts were controverted and sometimes either failed to accuse the Grievant in the first place or significantly retracted the original accusations. It was obvious that those who recanted their original stories could not have been telling the truth both times. Employer did not have just cause to terminate the Grievant and the discipline was reduced to a three day suspension.