Civil Service Employees Ass'n v. Public Employment Relations Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The judgment of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Vito Bertini, a grievance representative of the Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., assisted Luis Diaz, an employee of the State Department of Mental Hygiene, in filling out a grievance form requesting arbitration. As a result of a series of mistakes and omissions on the part of Bertini and other CSEA representatives, the charges were not timely filed and the grievance was dismissed. Thereafter, Diaz’s employment was terminated.

Thereafter, Diaz filed an improper practice charge against…