Employee Signature and Response Sample Clauses

Employee Signature and Response. Each employee shall have the opportunity to read any written material of a derogatory nature that is placed in his/her personnel file. Disciplinary notices, performance appraisals, or other similar material that, once included in the employee’s personnel file, is likely to have an adverse effect on an employee’s reputation or employment status shall be acknowledged, signed and dated by the employee within 14 calendar days of the employee receiving the document. All materials addressed in this Section and requiring the employee’s signature shall bear a statement stating, in effect, that signing acknowledges receipt of the document but does not necessarily indicate agreement. For 30 calendar days after the employee has signed acknowledging receipt of the document(s), the employee reserves the right to include in the file a written response to such material, and this response shall be attached to the material in question and become a part of the employee’s file. If an employee refuses to acknowledge the document by signing as instructed, the City shall make a note on the document to the effect that the employee refused to sign and place the document in the personnel file. By refusing to acknowledge receipt of the document, the employee shall waive any right to provide a written response or request the document be removed in the future pursuant to 7.6.