First Name: Initial: Last Name: Suffix: Arbitrator Since: Monte A. Klein Esq. 2017

Arbitration/Mediation Experience

Successfully mediated to conclusion, heard and decided thousands of improper practice charges as Director of Employment Practices and Representation and Administrative Law Judge at NYS Public Employment Relations Board across the full range of issues within the purview of the Taylor Law. As Board member since 2018 have decided appeals of administrative law judge decisions. Since launching an arbitration practice in 2017, I have either issued a decision or mediated to conclusion cases involving interest arbitration, discipline and discharge, performance evaluation, health insurance, seniority, workday/workweek and others. As impartial chair of the Waterfront Commission Employment Relations Panel for the Waterfront Commission of NY Harbor, was responsible for interest arbitration, grievance arbitration, unfair labor practice and representation issues involving the Commission and its employee organizations.

Panels/Permanent Arbitrator

American Arbitration Association Panel of Neutral Arbitrators; NYS Public Employment Relations Board Public and Private Sector Grievance Arbitration Panels; NYC Office of Collective Bargaining Roster of Neutrals; NYS/NYSCOPBA Disciplinary Arbitration Panel; NYS/CSEA Disciplinary Arbitration Panel; NYS Education Law section3020-a Disciplinary Arbitration Panel; NYS Department of Civil Service CSL Section 72 Hearing Officer Permanent Panel; Permanent Arbitrator in several public sector contracts, including County of Rockland.

Issues/Industries

As Board member, Director and Administrative Law Judge at PERB, handled and decided thousands of cases involving the full panoply of public sector labor relations under the Taylor Law in the public sector and the State Employment Relations Act in the private sector. Public sector parties included the State of New York and virtually every political subdivision thereof, i.e., cities, towns, villages, counties; as well as school districts, public authorities and public benefit corporations and their employee organizations, including police, fire, corrections, rank and file, supervisory employees, professional, scientific and technical employees, administrative employees, institutional services employees and many others. Arbitration issues included discipline and discharge, health insurance, seniority, workday/workweek, arbitrability, work schedules, performance evaluation.

Work History

Member of the Board, NYS Public Employment Relations Board, appointed by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, 2018-present Director of Public Employment Practices and Representation, NYS Public Employment Relations Board, 1996-2018 Impartial Chair, Waterfront Commission Employment Relations Panel for the Waterfront Commission of NY Harbor, 2008-2016 Administrative Law Judge, NYS Public Employment Relations Board, 1978-1996.

Education

J.D., Albany Law School of Union University, 1978. B.S., Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1975.

Professional Affiliations

member, NYS and federal bars; member, Labor and Employment Law Section, NYS Bar Association