18:0760(88)AR - DOD Dependents Schools, Pacific Region and Overseas Education Association, Pacific Region -- 1985 FLRAdec AR
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18:0760(88)AR
The decision of the Authority follows:
18 FLRA No. 88
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPENDENTS
SCHOOLS, PACIFIC REGION
Activity
and
OVERSEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION,
PACIFIC REGION
Union
Case No. 0-AR-974
ORDER DISMISSING EXCEPTIONS
This case is before the Authority on exceptions to the award of
Arbitrator Thomas Q. Gilson filed by the Activity pursuant to section
7122(a) of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute and
section 2425.1 of the Authority's Rules and Regulations. For the
reasons stated below, it has been determined that the exceptions must be
dismissed as untimely filed.
The Arbitrator's award is dated April 4, 1985, and appears to have
been served on the parties by mail on the same day.
Under section 7122(b) of the Statute, as amended, /1/ and section
2425.1 of the Authority's Rules and Regulations, as amended, /2/ which
amendments are applicable to exceptions pending or filed with the
Authority on or after March 2, 1984, and under sections 2429.21 and
2429.22 of the Rules and Regulations, which are also applicable to
computation of the time limit involved, any exceptions to the
Arbitrator's award in this case had to be filed with the Authority no
later than the close of business on May 8, 1985. However the exceptions
were not filed until May 9, 1985. Therefore, the exceptions were
untimely filed.
Accordingly, as the Activity's exceptions were untimely filed, they
are hereby dismissed. For the Authority. Issued, Washington, D.C.,
June 26, 1985
Harold D. Kessler
Managing Director for Case
Processing
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/1/ Section 7122(b) of the Statute was amended by the Civil Service
Miscellaneous Amendments Act of 1983 (Pub. L. No. 98-224, Sec. 4, 98
Stat. 47, 48 (1984)) to provide that the 30-day period for filing
exceptions to an arbitrator's award begins on the date the award is
served on the filing party.
/2/ 49 Fed.Reg. 22623 (1984).