Tag: arbitration

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Legal fees wasted

By:  Diane Benjamin Remember the story of Bloomington fireman Jon Caponi?    https://blnnews.com/2017/11/02/legal-employee-investigations/ He was arrested for domestic violence and then the charges were dropped because an investigation proved he wasn’t the aggressor. The City of Bloomington decided he needed to pay a price anyway, he got a 10 day suspension.  For a fireman, that’s 10 […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Legal: Employee Investigations?

By:  Diane Benjamin I’ve written before about the City spending resources to prosecute employees when arbitration reaches a different conclusion than the one the City wants.  Remember Scott Oglesby?   https://blnnews.com/2013/05/06/the-real-story-of-scott-oglesbys-firing/ Now they are doing it again.  This time it’s a fireman, Jon Caponi, who was arrested in 2016 for domestic violence.  See the newspaper story […]