The Grievance Hearing Sample Clauses

The Grievance Hearing. The Grievance Hearing Committee will be composed of five full-time tenured faculty who will elect their own chairperson. The chairperson will be responsible for scheduling the hearing, contacting all parties involved, chairing the hearing and the deliberations and writing the findings of the committee. Each committee member will have one vote. The grievant and the individual(s) charged in the grievance will be notified of the time and date of said hearing. The grievant and/or charged party may be accompanied to the hearing by an advisor of his/her choice. The Grievance Hearing Committee will conduct an appropriate hearing to gather evidence pertaining to the grievance. During the hearing the grievant, the charged party and any necessary witnesses will have the opportunity to testify and/or present supporting evidence (within the established guidelines and time frames of the group). The Hearing Committee will determine the procedures that will conform to due process and will communicate these to the parties. For each specific Grievance Hearing Committee, the five faculty members will be selected as follows: (1) Using random selection procedures, thirteen names will be selected from the potential pool of those eligible for this grievance procedure, excluding those from the department of the grievant. Either party may provide reasonable justification that a faculty member could not be fair and impartial. If reasonable justification is provided, the faculty member will be excluded from the list of names to be drawn. (2) A representative of the charged party and a representative selected by the grievant will establish necessary groundrules and select the names for the committee (using the procedure described in (1) above). (3) The grievant and the individual(s) charged in the grievance will each have the prerogative of striking four names from among the names generated in the procedure described in (1) above. The charged party will strike the first name. If more than one individual is charged with a grievance, the individuals involved will act as one in striking the names. (4) In the event a committee member is disqualified for any reason, three more names will be chosen by random number selection procedure from the potential pool of those eligible. The grievant and the individual(s) will each strike one name from the list. (5) A faculty member will not be selected for two Grievance Hearing Committees that will be operating during the same period of time. (6) I...
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Related to The Grievance Hearing

  • Grievance A grievance is an alleged violation, misinterpretation, or misapplication of the terms of the negotiated agreement between the Board and the Association.

  • GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE 9.1 It is the mutual desire of the Board and the Union that the complaints of employees shall be adjusted as quickly as possible, and it is understood that an employee has no grievance until they have first given the Principal, Immediate Supervisor or designate an opportunity to adjust the employee's complaints. It is further understood that an employee who uses avenues other than the Grievance Procedure contained in article 9 to rectify a complaint or grievance may prejudice their complaint or grievance or arbitration procedure. 9.2 An employee who has a complaint must bring that complaint to the attention of the Principal, Immediate Supervisor or designate within ten (10) working days of when the employee became or ought reasonably to have become aware of the circumstances which gave rise to the complaint. The Principal, Immediate Supervisor or designate shall verbally reply to the complaint within ten (10) working days from the presentation of the complaint. 9.3 Failing settlement when an employee has a complaint arising out of the interpretation, application, administration or alleged violation of the terms of the Agreement, the employee or union representative shall reduce the grievance to writing, stating the nature of the grievance, the Article or Articles allegedly violated, the redress sought, sign the grievance, and then, within five (5) working days of the verbal reply to 9.2 above, submit the grievance to the Superintendent responsible for Human Resources or designate, following which the grievance will be processed in the following manner and sequence. 9.4 Within ten (10) working days of receipt of the written grievance, the Superintendent responsible for Human Resources or designate, shall convene a meeting with the Union Grievance Committee and grievor in an effort to resolve the grievance. The Superintendent responsible for Human Resources or designate shall render a decision in writing within ten (10) working days after the meeting. 9.5 In discussing a complaint, the employee shall be allowed time off during working hours (provided this occurs during normal business hours) and shall have Union representation. A National Representative of the Union may be present at the request of the Union. 9.6 The Union recognizes that each Union representative is employed and that he/she will not leave his/her work during working hours except to perform his/her duties under the Collective Agreement. Therefore, no Union representative shall leave his/her work without obtaining the permission of his/her supervisor. Permission shall not be withheld unreasonably.

  • Grievance Commissioner System This is to confirm the discussion of the parties during collective bargaining that they are committed to encouraging early discussion and resolution of labour relations issues at the local level and seek to resolve grievances in a timely and cost efficient manner. To that end, this is to confirm that pursuant to Article 8, the parties agree that the Employer and Union at individual nursing homes may agree to utilize the following process in order to resolve a particular grievance through the utilization of a joint mediation-arbitration procedure:

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