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The Impact of Delay on Arbitrators' Decisions in Discharge Cases

Department of Management and Labor Relations at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 44115

A.N.M. Meshquat Uddin

Management, School of Business, 12 Kemal Ataturk Avenue, North South University, Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh

This study suggests that there is a more important reason for con cern about delay in the arbitration of discharge cases than the hardship it creates for the discharged employee or the problem presented to the employer by the potential of a large backpay award. It hypothesizes that the status quo tendency in decision making means the longer the delay between an employee's discharge and the arbitrator's decision, the less likely the grievant is to be reinstated. A test of this hypothesis using logistic regression indicates that, after controlling for other factors, a one- month increase in the delay reduces the odds of reinstatement by 8.6 percent.

Key Words: Index Terms: Arbitration • decision analysis/Discharge and discipline/ Grievance representation

Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2, 3-20 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X9802300201


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