McKeesport Area School District v. McKeesport School Service Personnel Ass'n, PSSPA/PSEA

McGINLEY, Judge.

McKeesport Area School District (District) has appealed from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court), dated September 18, 1989, refusing to vacate the arbitrator’s award which modified the discharge of David Stull (Grievant) to a fourteen-day suspension. We affirm.

Grievant, who is mentally handicapped, had been a groundskeeper for the District since 1974. On March 18, 1988, the District suspended Grievant and, on October 27, 1988, discharged him for neglecting his duties, leaving his place of employment without permission and failing to keep…