IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WESTERN DISTRICT
MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP SCHOOL : No. 194 WAL 2018
DISTRICT, :
:
Respondent : Petition for Allowance of Appeal from
: the Order of the Commonwealth Court
:
v. :
:
:
MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP EDUCATIONAL :
SUPPORT PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION, :
:
Petitioner :
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 11th day of October, 2018, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is
GRANTED, LIMITED TO the issues set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all
remaining issues. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:
(1) Whether the Commonwealth Court panel grossly departed from this Court’s
accepted practices regarding review of labor arbitration awards and abused
its discretion when it failed to give proper deference to the arbitrator’s factual
findings and contractual interpretation.
(2) Whether the Commonwealth Court panel’s decision conflicts with numerous
decisions of both this Honorable Court and the Commonwealth Court
applying the deferential essence test and defining the authority of the
arbitrator.
(3) Whether the panel erroneously held that the award violated public policy
despite the fact that it specifically acknowledges and accounts for the
District’s legal duty under [the Public Employee Relations Act].