Any full-time merit or full-time grant employee and part-time
and part-time grant employee regularly scheduled to work 50% or more
of the normal pay period who has successfully completed his or her
initial probationary period and thereafter believes that his or her
wage, benefits, working conditions or employment have been improperly
affected by an act or acts of a supervisor or department head contrary
to the terms of this Personnel Ordinance shall have the right to seek
redress of his or her grievance in the following manner.
Where a timely grievance is filed by an employee of the Office
of the Mayor and the Mayor is acting as the department head of said
office, the Mayor shall recuse himself or herself from participation
in the grievance procedure except as the interested department head,
and the Mayor's role in the orderly operation of the grievance
procedure shall be assumed and performed by the Chairperson of the
Grievance Board.
A grievance involving a suspension or termination may be filed
by the aggrieved employee at Step 4 of the grievance procedure within
five working days of receipt by the employee of official notice of
his or her suspension or termination.
All grievances shall be submitted in writing on the standard
Grievance Report Form available in the Town Hall and shall include
the following information:
C. A succinct statement of the reason for the grievance and that section(s)
of the Personnel Ordinance allegedly violated;
D. The date on which the grievance arose;
F. Pertinent information, such as names of witnesses, if applicable.
An aggrieved employee shall have the right to have a fellow
employee present during any step of the grievance procedure or to
be represented by an attorney at a Grievance Board hearing regarding
a suspension or termination. The presentation of any grievance without
fear of reprisal shall be considered the right of each employee.