A parks maintenance worker was fired after losing his driver's license as a result of an off-duty drunken driving arrest, but got his job back after an arbitrator ruled in his favor last month.
Troy Osborn works for the city of Coon Rapids in a job that requires a commercial driver's license. When he lost that for a year, the city gave him other duties.
According to the ruling made public by the Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services, the contract allowed the city to fire Osborn after two months of alternate work, which it did. But the arbitrator decided that another contract clause, one that required progressive discipline, should have taken precedence.
Osborn was reinstated with a long-term unpaid suspension until he can regain his commercial license.
