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UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS CASE, WHETHER THE CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO ARBITRATION OF A GRIEVANCE REQUIRED BY THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT WERE COMPLIED WITH IS A QUESTION FOR THE COURT, NOT THE ARBITRATOR (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined it was for the court, not the arbitrator, to determine whether the conditions precedent for arbitration were met in this action seeking General Municipal Law Section 207-a benefits for an injured firefighter:

… [T]he CBA [collective bargaining agreement] contains conditions precedent to arbitration within the provisions addressing the grievance procedure and … the court should have decided whether the conditions precedent had been met. “Questions concerning compliance with a contractual step-by-step grievance process have been recognized as matters of procedural arbitrability to be resolved by the arbitrators,” except in cases involving “a very narrow arbitration clause or a provision expressly making compliance with the time limitations a condition precedent to arbitration” … . Here, compliance with the requirements of steps one and two of the grievance procedure and the time limitations for serving a grievance were conditions precedent to arbitration. Under these circumstances, we conclude that “it was for the court, and not the arbitrator, to decide whether the grievance[] had been timely [served] and completed by the . . . employee at steps one and two of the grievance procedure” … . Therefore, we … remit the matter to Supreme Court for a hearing on the issue whether the conditions precedent to arbitration were met and thereafter for a new determination on the petition to stay arbitration … . Matter of Village of Manlius (Town of Manlius Professional Firefighters Assn., Iaff Local #3316), 2020 NY Slip Op 04251, Fourth Dept 7-24-20

 

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