Becoming a Labor Arbitrator

Date:
June 19 – 23, 2017

Time:
Monday-Thursday, 8:30am-4:30pm; Friday 8:30 am- 1pm

Cost:
$2500.00
If you are paying by check please mail to:
FMCS Institute
2001 6th Avenue Suite # 2500
Seattle, WA 98121

Location:
FMCS DC training center
One Independence Square
250 E Street Southwest
Washington, DC  20427

Description:
This course is geared toward labor-management practitioners with substantial experience in industrial, labor, and employment relations who wish to become labor arbitrators.
Successful completion of this training will substitute for three of the five minimum number of cases required to be placed on the FMCS Roster of Arbitrators. This change became effective December 27, 2005. However, successful completion of the course does not guarantee a place on the FMCS Roster. The course can also enhance the practice and skills of current arbitrators.

Registration Information

Please Note: The staff and faculty for the Labor Arbitration course require a clear bio of your collective bargaining experience to be completed and submitted prior to acceptance to the Labor Arbitration course, if you intend to apply for placement on the FMCS Arbitrator Roster. This bio must outline, unambiguously, your years of collective bargaining experience.

This course is typically offered only twice a year. Please make course payment and hotel reservation only after you have received an approval letter for this course.

Once you reserve your seat for the course, you will be asked whether you intend to apply for placement on the FMCS Roster. If you do not intend to apply for FMCS Roster placement at this time, you must send an e-mail affirming this.

•   Please reserve your seat for this class first in the registration are then submit your bio to:  fmcs_institute@fmcs.gov
•   Once your bio has been approved you will then be notified at that time to make payment

Topics Include:

• The law of arbitration
• Arbitration, practice, scheduling and pre-hearing procedures
• Conducting the hearing, issues framing, witnesses and records
• Evidence
• Award and opinion writing
• Ethics
• FMCS arbitration policies and procedures
• Building a practice
• Application process to the FMCS Roster of Arbitrators

Instructors:

Martin Malin, Arbitrator
Floyd Weatherspoon, Arbitrator

The Institute will enforce the following cancellation policy: Cancellations received more than 7 days in advance will be refunded the full amount less a $50.00 processing fee. No-shows and cancellations received less than 7 days before the seminar date are not eligible for a refund. Substitutions may be made at any time.

Please note: A service animal (dog) may be present in the classroom.