The Clock
The number of business days each level of management has to respond before a grievance automatically advances.
What is 5 business days?
The Review Board's only job in a gross misconduct case is to establish if this occurred.
What is the conduct (or the rule violation)?
The sole collective bargaining agent recognized by the company.
What is The Committee?
This is the first person the Committee discusses the issue with in Step 1.
What is the Immediate Supervisor?
The Review Board consists of this many Management members and this many Committee members.
What is 2 Management and 1 Committee?
The timeframe for the Committee to submit a grievance form after becoming aware of an issue (excluding attendance).
What is 6 business days?
A high-severity safety violation involving energy isolation that is considered Gross Misconduct
What is Lock Out/Tag Out (LOTO)?
This person must provide approval before a Representative leaves their work area to assist with a grievance.
What is a Supervisor?
This occurs automatically if management fails to respond within the 5-day window.
What is advancing to the next step?
The deadline to escalate a termination grievance before it is considered closed.
What is 5 business days?
This category includes physical, verbal, or even implied threats in the workplace.
What is Violence?
This department must receive a copy of the grievance at the very start of the process.
What is Human Resources (HR)?
The number of days allowed to submit a written request to HR for a Review Board hearing after the last decision.
What is 10 business days?
This specific violation involves the intentional destruction of company or personal property.
What is Theft or Destruction of Property?
An employee has the right to request this person at any time during the grievance process.
What is a Committee Representative?
Steps 2 and 3 require the Committee to escalate the grievance in this specific manner.
What is in writing?
This specific type of termination skips Steps 1 through 3 and proceeds directly to the Review Board
What is a Non-attendance termination?
True or False: The Review Board can reduce discipline for a Gross Misconduct case if the employee has a good record.
What is False? (They have no authority to reduce discipline if conduct is established).
In Step 3, the Committee meets with this high-level department figure.
What is the Head-of-Department (or equivalent)?
The two primary things the grievance procedure is used to resolve regarding the Labor Agreement's terms.
What are interpretation and application?
Instead of relying on "emotional responses," the Board must base its decision on individual circumstances and this.
What is factual information?