Avenues of Redress. Employees who believe they have been discriminated against have the option of filing an EEO complaint through the Agency’s EEO administrative complaint process or filing a grievance under the negotiated grievance procedure contained in this document, but not both. However, an employee who has contacted an EEO counselor and initiated an informal EEO complaint shall not be deemed to have irrevocably chosen to pursue his or her complaint through the formal EEO administrative process; only the filing of a formal EEO complaint following the informal counseling phase thereafter bars the filing of a grievance under the negotiated grievance procedure. If an employee first contacts an EEO counselor, the time deadline to file a grievance under this agreement does not begin to run until the counseling phase has been completed. Management agrees to strive to resolve allegations of discrimination and sexual harassment in the pre-complaint counseling phase of the EEO administrative remedy process.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
