When may a Labour Commission have a dispute mediated by a single mediator rather than its mediation committee?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
For this exercise, the papers to read are the joint application of both related parties, or the consent of both to a single mediator, the Commission's record setting the mediation committee aside, and the paper on which both parties named the same commission member, which the chair then designated.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the conditions as they stand: where both related parties apply, or both give their consent, the Labour Commission may have the dispute mediated by a single mediator with the mediation committee set aside, and the mediator must be a member of that Commission whom both parties selected in common and the chair then designated.
Another reading stresses the limits the text draws: the route depends on both sides acting together, since an application or consent from one side alone opens nothing, and the mediator must come from among that Labour Commission's own members, so a person outside the Commission cannot be designated under this provision.
Your judgment
If a member both parties had agreed on leaves the Commission before the mediation ends, what would the file need to show for a single mediator to continue?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change whose agreement is required or who may serve as single mediator, or if an authoritative decision addresses the effect of a designated member's departure from the Commission.