SD16 - The State Grievance Procedure
Executive Summary: During the 1978 General Assembly Session legislation was passed which substantially modified the state grievance procedure as it existed at that time. Changes in local government grievance procedures were also mandated. The 1978 changes were the result of a joint Senate and House General Laws Committees Study on Grievance Procedures. The study, reported in Senate Document No. 23, 1978, found deficiencies in the procedures themselves as well as in the application of the procedures. The subcommittee found that employees were sometimes reluctant to use the grievance procedure, both because of a lack of knowledge about the procedure and because of a fear of reprisal. The subsequent legislative changes were designed to make the grievance procedure more responsive to employees. The Office of Employee Relations Counselors was created on July 1, 1978, as an independent state agency responsible for helping state employees use and understand the grievance procedure and for developing and administering certain aspects of the state grievance procedure. Although there have been a number of statutory and policy modifications since 1978, the basic grievance procedure has remained the same. Senate Joint Resolution No. 38, agreed to during the 1984 General Assembly Session, directed the joint subcommittee to study three specific issues on which questions had been raised. |
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