Case: Labor Arbitration/Discharge (Arb.)

The Saint-Gobain company had just cause to discharge the grievant for violating its workplace violence policy by losing his temper, engaging in threatening and coercive behavior toward a co-worker and interfering with production by cutting material on the co-worker’s side of the compounding machine and yelling at him, Arbitrator Michael Paolucci ruled. The company’s corrective action program provides that violent and threatening behavior is a major infraction that may result in termination, irrespective of lost production and despite the grievant’s 26 years with the company, especially given his initial dishonesty regarding what occurred. The grievant was also at the last ...