Law360, New York (April 19, 2017, 4:43 PM EDT) -- A D.C. federal court on Wednesday reluctantly signed off on an arbitration award ordering the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to reinstate a maintenance worker who falsely claimed to have inspected a fan that later malfunctioned following an incident that killed one Metro passenger and injured others. Because the arbitrators who vacated Seyoum Haile’s termination in favor of a six-month unpaid suspension neither disregarded a collective bargaining agreement between WMATA and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 nor acted arbitrarily or in violation of public policy, WMATA has no cause for refusing to rehire him, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg...

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