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58 FLRA No. 27
AFGE, Local 1915 and U. S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, William Jennings Bryan Dorn Medical Center, Columbia, South Carolina (Murphy, Arbitrator), 0-AR-0- AR-3536 (Decided October 8, 2002)
Under § 7122(a) of the Statute, an award is deficient if it is contrary to any law, rule, or regulation; or it is deficient on other grounds similar to those applied by federal courts in private sector labor-management relations. In this case, the Authority concluded that the award was not deficient on the grounds raised in the exceptions and set forth in § 7122(a). The Authority rejected the allegations that the Arbitrator failed to conduct a fair hearing, that the award was contrary to law, that it was based on a nonfact and that it failed to draw its essence from the agreement..