Duty of Fair Representation. By taking an employee's case through the grievance or arbitration process, the union can prevent claims that it failed in its duty of fair representation. The union has the right to refuse to take a case if it is deemed that the issue lacks sufficient merit to grieve or arbitrate.
Related to benign: benign neglect, benign hypertension. (bÄ­-nÄ«nâ²) adj. 1. a. Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless: a benign chemical; benign indifference. b. Of no danger to health; not malignant or disease-causing: a benign tumor.
The benign tumors are a result of non harmful or non malignant uncontrolled multiplication of cells, which form a mass and are considered as tumours. Benign tumours do not have the ability to metastasize to other regions of the body or to invade any adjacent tissue and they grow in size at the location which they have started.