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200

This Civil Service Rule establishes prohibited subjects of bargaining.

What is Civil Service Rule 6-3.2?

200

Interim Service Ratings are considered this type of corrective action.

What is discipline?

200

This Civil Service Regulation addresses grievances and appeals.

What is Civil Service Regulation 8.01?

200

These two documents should always be exhibits at arbitration.

What are the CBA and grievance chain?

200

This is the number of Civil Service Commissioners.

What is 4?

400

Scheduling, overtime assignment and defining seniority are PSBs under this topic.

What is assignment of staff?

400

Interim Service Ratings can be issued at this point of the year.

What is any?

400

A complaint alleging that there has been a violation, misinterpretation, or misapplication of any provision of a collective bargaining agreement.

What is a grievance?

400

This person weighs the credibility of your witnesses.

What is the arbitrator?

400

These are the two additional functions of the Employment Relations Board in addition to the Civil Service Appeals process.

What are the Impasse Panel and the Coordinated Compensation Panel (CCP)?

600

Grievances over PSBs must be filed in this forum.

What is Civil Service?

600

These are ways to put an employee on notice their performance is less than satisfactory (list at least 3).

What are Annual performance rating; PIP; Coaching; Mentoring; Training; Instructional Memos; Informal and/or formal counseling?

600

This can be considered at any time in the grievance process to “control your own destiny.”

What is a settlement?

600

In State Classified Service, an employee can only be disciplined for this.

What is Just Cause?

600

This document, or any provision of, cannot take effect or be enforceable between the parties unless the civil service commission has reviewed and approved it.

What is Collective Bargaining Agreement?

800

Effective January 1, 2022, the CSC amended Rule 6-9.6 to state an arbitrator has an inability to grant relief based on these principles.

What are general equitable principles?

800

These are 3 things an ISR must do under the Regulation.

What are address specific performance or behavior problems, identify specific expectations for improvement, establish a time frame for improvement during a follow-up rating period?

800

Under the UAW agreement, a grievance must be filed within this many weekdays from the date the employee became aware.

What is 15?

800

This term has two definitions in the arbitration process: a request from the Union for documents in preparation for arbitration and the exchange of documents and witnesses to be relied on by the parties at arbitration.

What is disclosure?

800

This Article and Section of the Michigan Constitution applies to the classified service.

What is Article 11§5?

1000

Your first point of contact when you think you’ve identified a PSB in a grievance.

What is OSE?

1000

This Civil Service Regulation provides clear direction for issuing an ISR.

What is Civil Service Regulation 2.06?

1000

Under this collective bargaining agreement, you must pay for the arbitration even if you prevail when this bargaining unit has not received a timely Step 2 grievance answer.

What is AFSCME?

1000

An acknowledgement by the parties that a certain fact or issue relating to the dispute is true or exists and should only be agreed to with extreme caution.

What is a stipulation?

1000

Collective bargaining under a constitutional amendment can only be done by this bargaining unit.

What is MSPTA?