Jay Siegel, Esq.

Jay M. Siegel is a full-time labor arbitrator and mediator with over thirty years of
labor and employment law experience. Arbitrator Siegel started his arbitration and
mediation practice in 2005. In September 2011, he was inducted into the National
Academy of Arbitrators.

Arbitrator Siegel hears and decides disputes in both the private and public sectors.
He has expertise in numerous industries, including bottling plants, communications,
corrections, firefighting, food service, health care, higher education, law enforcement,
public education, and transportation.

Arbitrator Siegel is a member of several labor arbitration rosters, including the
American Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the
New York State Public Employment Relations Board, and the New York City Office of
Collective Bargaining.

Arbitrator Siegel serves as Master Arbitrator for contract disputes for the State of
New York and both the Police Benevolent Association of New York State and AFSCME Council 82 Security Supervisors Unit. He also serves as the New York City Regional Master Arbitrator for discipline for the State of New York and the Civil Service Employees Association and as the Select Arbitrator for contract disputes and for expedited probable cause suspension reviews for the Public Employees Federation and New York State. Arbitrator Siegel serves as Co-Master Arbitrator for Liberty Coca-Cola and Teamsters Local 812. He also serves as a permanent panel arbitrator under several other collective bargaining agreements, including those between Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and ATU Local 1342, United Parcel Service and Teamsters Local 804, Nassau County and the Nassau County Correction Officers Benevolent Association, Nassau County and CSEA, Rochester Regional Transit Service and ATU Local 282, Orange County and the Orange County Deputy Sheriffs PBA, and the State of New York and NYSCOPBA.

Arbitrator Siegel is a 1991 graduate of Albany Law School and a 1988 cum laude
graduate of Tufts University. He was admitted to the state and federal bars in 1992. He practiced traditional labor law from 1991 to 2005.