Opinion
No. 330 WAL 2019
05-01-2020
CALIFORNIA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, Respondent v. CALIFORNIA AREA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, PSEA/NEA, Petitioner
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW , this 1st day of May, 2020, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED , the orders of the Commonwealth Court and the Washington County Court of Common Pleas are VACATED , and the arbitrator's award of May 29, 2017 is REINSTATED . Millcreek Township School District v. Millcreek Township Educational Support Personnel Association , ––– Pa. ––––, 210 A.3d 993, 1002 (2019) (under the essence test, arbitration award under the Public Employe Relations Act "is to be respected by the judiciary if the interpretation can in any rational way be derived from the [collective bargaining] agreement" and "must be affirmed unless it indisputably and genuinely is without foundation in, or fails to logically flow from, the collective bargaining agreement" (internal quotation marks omitted)).