Annual Evaluation Grievances Sample Clauses
The Annual Evaluation Grievances clause establishes a formal process for employees to challenge or appeal the results of their yearly performance evaluations. Typically, this clause outlines the steps an employee must follow to file a grievance, such as submitting a written complaint within a specified timeframe and participating in a review or hearing process. By providing a structured mechanism for addressing disputes over evaluations, the clause helps ensure fairness and transparency, allowing employees to seek redress if they believe their evaluation was inaccurate or unjust.
Annual Evaluation Grievances. 11.8.1 Grievances alleging that a Department Chair’s annual evaluation of a Bargaining Unit Faculty Member did not reasonably comply with a specific provision(s) of this Agreement or with a specific provision(s) of the Department or College Bylaws may be filed relating to a single year’s evaluation.
11.8.1.1 Grievances pursuant to Section 11.8.1 must be filed not later than forty (40) days after a Bargaining Unit Faculty Member receives her or his annual evaluation or by June 1, whichever is later. Otherwise, procedures for such grievances are as specified in Article 16.
11.8.2 Grievances alleging that a Department Chair’s annual evaluations of a Bargaining Unit Faculty Member have been inconsistent with evaluations of other Members or in any other way involved a pattern of faulty judgment or prejudicial treatment, must refer to a period of at least three years, beginning no more than five years prior to the filing of the grievance.
11.8.2.1 Upon receiving a grievance pursuant to Section 11.8.2 the AAUP-WSU and the University shall form a four-member Evaluation Appeals Committee consisting of two members selected by the AAUP-WSU and two members selected by the University. None of the Committee members may be from the appellant’s department.
11.8.2.2 The appellant’s current department chair will be given an opportunity to submit a written response to the grievance, and the appellant will be given an opportunity to comment on or rebut the department chair’s statement.
11.8.2.3 The Evaluation Appeals Committee shall review materials submitted by the appellant and any response submitted by the appellant’s department chair. In addition, the Committee may request that the appellant or other persons with knowledge of the case appear before the Committee or respond to the Committee’s questions in writing.
11.8.2.4 Following the review of materials and testimony relevant to the case, the Evaluation Appeals Committee will send to the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and to the AAUP-WSU a report stating whether or not a significant pattern of inconsistent evaluations is substantiated, the basis for its findings, and its determination of revised evaluations for the affected years.
11.8.2.5 If the Evaluation Appeals Committee revises any annual evaluations for the grievant, the University and the AAUP-WSU will jointly calculate the grievant’ s current base salary as it would have been if the revised evaluations had been awarded in the affected years.
11.8.2.6 Because the decisions of the Evalu...
Annual Evaluation Grievances. N11.7.1 Grievances alleging that a Department Chair’s annual evaluation of a Bargaining Unit Faculty Member did not reasonably comply with a specific provision(s) of this Agreement may be filed relating to a single year’s evaluation.