Kevin Roy represents public sector clients with respect to the full complement of labor and employment matters, including contract negotiations, interest arbitration, contract administration issues, grievance arbitration cases, prohibited practice proceedings, administrative appeals of decisions of the State Board of Labor Relations filed in Superior Court, and applications to vacate arbitration awards filed in Superior Court.
Kevin counsels municipal and board of education employers with respect to a myriad of employment law issues including the pre-employment hiring process and application issues, personnel policies and practices, disciplinary issues, termination and separation matters, Freedom of Information Act issues and complaints, military leave, leave issues, unemployment compensation, and workers’ compensation matters.
- Listed as a Connecticut Super Lawyer Rising Star®: Employment & Labor; 2010-2012
- American Bar Association
- Connecticut Bar Association
- Connecticut School Attorneys
- Labor & Employment Relations Association
- Connecticut Public Employer Labor Relations Association
Interest Arbitration Proceedings for Boards of Education
Successfully represented board of education clients in interest arbitration proceedings concerning the payment of teacher incentives under a grant program called Project Opening Doors ("POD"). The decisions cleared the way for our clients to receive grant funding.
The respective teacher unions objected to incentive payments being made to teachers on the basis of student performance. As the boards and the unions were not able to reach agreements regarding the payment of these incentives under the grant program, three person arbitration panels were appointed in accordance with statutory procedures to determine whether such incentives would be paid.
Both arbitration panels determined that the POD program, including the incentive payments to teachers, served the public interest by promoting higher achievement for minority students. Based on work by our school and labor lawyers and staff, as well as information from Connecticut’s then Commissioner of Education Dr. Mark McQuillan (who has referred to POD a “blessing” that will help “transform our secondary school system in a very significant way”), both arbitration panels permitted the POD grants to be awarded to the boards, including the disputed incentive payments.