Case: Labor Arbitration/Work Assignments (Arb.)

Arbitrator E. R. Scales ruled that University of Toledo violated its CBA when it placed a lecturer on inactive status due to a decline in enrollment at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequently dismissed her after she had been on inactive status for 12 months, even though it didn’t arbitrarily determine that the grievant’s courses should be cancelled for low enrollment. He found that the university violated the agreement by placing the lecturer with 10 years’ experience on inactive status while it allowed graduate teaching assistants to teach classes, since GTAs aren’t faculty members or even public employees, ...