NFLPA Loses Grievance Regarding Paid Leave in Personal Conduct Policy

April 11, 2016   ·   Timothy Rapp   ·   Jump to comments

An arbitrator ruled against the NFL Players Association on Sunday, noting the league's personal conduct policy did not violate the Collective Bargaining Agreement, per ESPN.com. 
In particular, arbitrator Jonathan B. Marks upheld the league's use of paid leave as well as "the commissioner's authority to discipline players for conduct detrimental to the league."
The NFLPA had challenged commissioner Roger Goodell's broad power to levy punishments against players and the league's use of paid leave or the commissioner exempt list when investigating players who may have violated the personal conduct policy.
The exempt list allows teams to remove a player from its 53-man roster but also allows it to pay that player, if it chooses, while an investigation of a crime, for instance, is underway. The most famous example was Adrian Peterson in 2014 when he was charged with "reckless or negligent injury to a child" before ultimately pleading no contest to mi...

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