Two Members Awarded Total of $24,600 in Standby Pay Case
July 14, 2009
Back in January, an arbitrator awarded a Unit 3 member more than two months of standby pay after determining that his employer, the Mass Highway Department, had wrongly denied him the pay in violation of the bargaining unit’s contract. NAGE attorney Rebecca Mitchell successfully represented the grievant in that case.
Since that initial victory, Attorney Mitchell has represented two other similarly harmed members in their plight for owed standby duty pay. Attorney Mitchell hammered on the Union’s previous win and soon after, the Department agreed to forego an arbitration on both matters and pay the owed monies.
Since the Union’s success at arbitration in the initial standby case, Attorney Mitchell has attained the entire amount of lost monies for each of the two grievants, without either member ever having to endure an adversarial process. At the conclusion, Attorney Mitchell recouped a total of $24,600.00 for the grievants.