Whenever the Employer or his Sample Clauses

Whenever the Employer or his designee determines that an employee may be disciplined for cause (including only suspensions, reductions, or termination), a predisciplinary conference will be scheduled to give the employee an opportunity to offer an explanation of the alleged conduct.

Whenever the Employer or his designee determines that an employee may be subject to suspension, reduction, or discharge for just cause, a predisciplinary (fact-finding) conference will be scheduled, with an administrator not in the employee’s chain of command or division, to afford the employee an opportunity to offer an explanation of the alleged conduct, inclusive of oral and/or written testimony. The Employer shall notify the affected employee and the appropriate Union representative and/or xxxxxxx of the date and time of the conference. The Union representative and/or xxxxxxx shall be present at the predisciplinary conference unless agreed otherwise between said employee and representative. Any such agreement shall be reduced to writing, signed by both parties, and submitted to the Employer for the record. An employee may also elect, in writing, to waive the opportunity of a predisciplinary conference.