In re Metropolitan Life Insurance

This application to stay arbitration under a collective bargaining agreement presents a somewhat unusual phase. The proposed arbitration concerns the termination by the petitioner of the employment of one of its agents. .The union asserts that the termination was not justified. The agreement provides for arbitration of such a dispute but limits the scope of the arbitration. The applicable clause is: “ In arbitrating such grievance, the arbitrator shall determine only whether or not the facts alleged by the Company, or any other facts presented, justified such action. Should the arbitrator…