Common use of Section Twelve Clause in Contracts

Section Twelve. The panel chairperson may exclude any person who engages in improper conduct. No formal transcripts or stenographic records of proceedings shall be required. Technical rules of evidence shall not prevail. The panel may not grant any remedy other than the specific remedy requested in the grievance filed at Step I or as modified by mutual agreement of the parties concerned and may not add to, subtract from, alter or modify a bargaining agreement or grant either party matters which were not obtained in the bargaining process. Witnesses shall be compensated in accordance with Article 15, Section Nine. Management may be represented by either the appointing authority (or designee), the Commissioner of Administrative Services designee(s) or both. The burden of proof shall be on the employee to show that management’s denial of the reclassification was arbitrary or unreasonable.