Belmont County Sheriff v. Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio Labor Council, Inc.

{¶ 1} The issue presented for our review in this appeal concerns the scope of the authority of an arbitrator to determine whether or not a grievance is arbitrable. After careful review of the facts as contained in the record presented to us and a review of applicable law, we have concluded that where the parties to a collective-bargaining agreement have clearly and unmistakably vested the arbitrator with the authority to decide the issue of arbitrability, the question of whether a matter is arbitrable is to be decided by the arbitrator.

{¶ 2} The facts of this case are generally not disputed…