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STATE OF NEW JERSEY
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION
RESUME OF PANEL ARBITRATOR
E. Patrick
McDermott
Annapolis, MD
ARBITRATOR; PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AND LAW, FRANKLIN P. PERDUE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, SALISBURY UNIVERSITY
GRIEVANCE ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE:
Neutral arbitrator, mediator and fact finder following four decades of equally balanced advocate experience with two decades as management and two decades as employee counsel. This include New Jersey public sector law in a boutique public sector firm, in-house experience in labor relations at Johnson & Johnson, and neutral experience as a Field Examiner at the NLRB, Region 22, Newark, New Jersey. I sit on numerous state arbitration panels and on the AAA labor and employment law panels and the FMCS panel. I am a professor teaching union-management relations, employment law and negotiation. I have case experience in discipline and discharge, drug testing, contract interpretation, K-12 planning time and promotion issues; federal promotion issues; pay and wage differentials, police discipline and discharge, and protective service officer discharge. I represented plaintiffs in complex employment law litigation and have extensive experience with complex discovery disputes, electronic discovery, use of expert witnesses, individual and class actions in race discrimination, FLSA class (opt-in) litigation, WARN, disability, discrimination and harassment, FMLA and whistleblower (SOX) issues. My experience also includes the following public and private sector industries: pharmaceutical, airline, entertainment, intellectual property, public safety, private security services, federal agency, trades, and construction, athletics, manufacturing, education and faculty, among others. As an NLRB Agent in NJ, I have labor relations experience across a range of private sector industries. I am available for in-person or remote hearings.
MEDIATION AND FACT-FINDING EXPERIENCE:
See above. I have over three decades as advocate in mediation. I also was a mediator for a large state EEOC deferral program.
I regularly lecture on Advanced Mediator Techniques and Training at the National EEOC Mediator training conference.
My university research establishes me as a nationally recognized mediation scholar on the use of virtual mediation.
INTEREST ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE:
My interest arbitration experience was as an advocate working for the Law Office of Gerald Dorf. We did interest arbitration work for many of the NJ municipalities.
EDUCATION:
Earned at Night:
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.
) – The George Washington University, School of Business and Public Management, Washington, D.C. Major: Human Resources Management, Minor: Organizational Behavior.
Masters of Law in Taxation (LL.M.)
- New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y.
Juris Doctor (J.D.)
- Rutgers - Newark School of Law, Newark, New Jersey.
Fulltime Day
:
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Masters of Science (M.S.)
- New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Major: Collective Bargaining, Minor: Comparative Industrial Relations Systems.
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Bachelors of Science (B.S.)
- New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Major: Industrial and Labor Relations.
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Associate of Arts (A.A.)
– Essex Community College.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York, Florida, and Maryland and the U.S. District Courts of New Jersey, Maryland, and Middle District of Florida.
Labor and Employment Relations Association; American Bar Association, Sections on Dispute Resolution and Section on Labor and Employment Law; Florida State Bar Association Section on Labor and Employment Law
Permanent Panel:
AFGE Local 987 and USAF Robins Air Force Base, Georgia Expedited Arbitration Panel
Ad Hoc Panels:
AAA Labor-Management Panel
AAA – Labor and Employment Law Panel
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Labor-Management Panel
New Jersey Public Employee Relations Commission
New Jersey State Board of Mediation
California Public Employee Relations Board, State Mediation And Conciliation Service Labor-Management Panel
Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission Labor-Management Panel
Michigan Employment Relations Commission Panel
Oregon Employment Relations Commission Panel
U.S. Virgin Islands Public Employees Relations Board
Financial Industry And Regulatory Authority Arbitration Panel
OTHER RELEVANT OR EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE:
National Labor Relations Board, Region 22, Newark, New Jersey - Field Examiner;
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick N.J. - Labor Relations Representative, Member National Collective Bargaining Team;
Pan American World Airways – NYC, NY Labor Relations Representative, First Chair Arbitration and Field Board of Adjustment;
Associate – Law Office of Gerald Dorf, Rahway N.J.
ABC/Disney – Associate General Counsel, Labor, First Chair Arbitration, Chief Negotiator, ABC/NBC/CBS – Local 3, IBEW;
Partner, Labor Department, Weinberg and Green, Baltimore, Md.
PER DIEM FEES:
GRIEVANCE ARBITRATION $
1.800
INTEREST ARBITRATION $
1,800
CANCELLATION NOTICE AND FEE (if any):
Fourteen (14) calendar days or parties are liable for full fee for cancelled day *Per diem for each hearing day, all time spent in study and preparation of Opinion and Award. NO TRAVEL CHARGES FOR HEARINGS HELD WITHIN 10 MILES OF AN AMTRAK OR NJ TRANSIT STATION. OTHERWISE ANY CAR MILEAGE CHARGES START AT THE NEW JERSEY BORDER