GBK
LEVERETT SCHOOL
COMMITTEE
STAFF COMPLAINTS AND
GRIEVANCES
The
School Committee will encourage the administration to develop effective means
of resolving differences that may arise among employees and between employees
and administrators; reduce potential areas of grievances; and establish and
maintain recognized channels of communication between the staff,
administration, and School Committee.
It
is the Committee's desire that grievance procedures provide for prompt and
equitable adjustment of differences at the lowest possible administrative
level, and that each employee be assured opportunity for an orderly
presentation and review of complaints and concerns.
Channels
established will provide for the following:
1. That teachers and other school employees may appeal
a ruling of a Principal or other administrator to the Superintendent.
2. That all school employees may appeal a ruling of
the Superintendent to the Committee, except in those areas where the law has
specifically assigned authority to the Principal and/or the Superintendent and
Committee action would be in conflict with that law.
3. That all hearings of complaints before the
Superintendent or Committee be conducted in the presence of the administrator
who made the ruling that is the subject of the grievance.
The
process established for the resolution of grievances in contracts negotiated
with recognized employee bargaining units will apply only to
"grievances" as defined in the particular contract.
SOURCE: MASC September 2016
LEGAL REFS.: M.G.L. 150E:5 and 8
CONTRACT
REFS.: All Contract Agreement
NOTE: Grievance procedures
established through negotiated agreements may be referred to, as in the policy
above. Many school systems also cite specific article and section numbers
with the contract references.
Reviewed
by Leverett Policy Committee: 10/02/17
First
Reading by Leverett School Committee: 11/06/17
Second
Reading, First Vote by Leverett School Committee: 12/04/17
Final
Vote by Leverett School Committee: 01/08/18