Just Cause #2: Is the rule a reasonable rule? Management must make sure rules are reasonable, based on the overall objective of safe and efficient work performance. Management's rules should be reasonably related to business efficiency, safe operation of our business, and the performance we might expect of the employee.

Arbitrator Brown rescinded and expunged an EP and NOR when management failed to prove that the rule being applied to the grievant was reasonable. The Arbitrator found five other ways that the Just Cause and Due Process were violated when discipline was issued.