Step 1 - Nurse and First Level of Supervision Sample Clauses

Step 1 - Nurse and First Level of Supervision. It is the desire of the parties to this Agreement that grievances be adjusted informally whenever possible and at the first level of supervision. If any nurse has a grievance, the nurse or, at the nurse’s option, a local unit officer shall reduce the grievance to writing and shall deliver the grievance to the nurse’s first level of supervision within twenty-one (21) calendar days from the date the nurse was or should have been aware a grievance existed. As soon as possible thereafter, the nurse and, at the nurse’s option, a local unit officer or designee, shall discuss the grievance with the nurse’s first level of supervision. Every reasonable effort shall be made to meet within fourteen (14) calendar days of the first level of supervision’s receipt of the grievance. [If the meeting is not possible during this fourteen (14) calendar day period, the scheduling of the meeting for some later date shall at least occur during this fourteen (14) calendar day period.] The first level of supervision shall respond in writing within ten (10) calendar days.