An arbitrator’s award of a remedy in excess of a collective bargaining agreement in an Act 111 arbitration can stand, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
“At issue in this case is what can be done when an arbitrator, in an Act 111 arbitration, awards a remedy expressly prohibited by the collective bargaining agreement. The answer is not much,” Judge Dan Pellegrini wrote for the court in Bensalem Township v. Bensalem Township Police Benevolent Association Inc.
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