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Check out our labour law seminars and conferences across Canada for union representatives, employer representatives and legal counsel:

The Progressive Discipline Seminar For Supervisors and Union Stewards Register Edmonton: March 7, 2019
The Progressive Discipline Seminar For Supervisors and Union Stewards Register Vancouver: March 28, 2019
The 2019 Accommodation Law Conference Register Winnipeg: April 2 & 3, 2019
The 2019 Accommodation Law Conference Register Saskatoon: May 8 & 9, 2019
The 2019 Accommodation Law Conference Register Vancouver: May 15 & 16, 2019
The 2019 Accommodation Law Conference Register Edmonton: May 29 & 30, 2019
The Progressive Discipline Seminar For Supervisors and Union Stewards Register Winnipeg: June 6, 2019
The Progressive Discipline Seminar For Supervisors and Union Stewards Register Saskatoon: June 25, 2019

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Determining the exact quantum of discipline along the progressive discipline spectrum is an inexact science. It can be hard to determine whether the penalty should be a one, two or three-day suspension. One arbitrator said that “arbitrators should not ‘tinker’ with the penalty unless it offends the arbitrator's sense of justice and equity.” (See Calgary (City), 2010 CanLII 96455 (AB GAA). The arbitrator went on to say that the appropriate question for the arbitrator is “whether the penalty falls within the reasonable range of employer responses.”