In re the Arbitration Between Cortland County & CSEA, Inc.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Dowd, J.), entered December 26, 2014 in Cortland County, which, among other things, denied petitioners’ application pursuant to CPLR 7503 to permanently stay arbitration between the parties.

Petitioners and respondent were parties to a collective bargaining agreement (hereinafter CBA) that was in effect from 2011 through 2014. In 2011, Lawrence Jackson, a correction officer employed by petitioner Cortland County Sheriff, was diagnosed with plantar fasciitis in his left foot and was subsequently awarded workers’ compensation benefits, but denied…