Dispute Over Reporting Rules for Sex Offenders

The APWU has appealed to arbitration a revision to ELM Section 665 which requires employees on a public registry of sex offenders to report their status to management. The union’s appeal asserts that the proposed language fails the fair, reasonable and equitable test of Article 19, and that the real purpose of the self-reporting requirement is to serve as a means to discipline or remove employees for failing to report their status - even though the off-duty conduct may not itself warrant discipline or removal.