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Grievance Timeline

Informal Levels

• Prior to filing a formal grievance, you need to discuss the alleged grievance with your site manager.

Level I

• With 20 days of an alleged contract violation you must submit the written grievance to the appropriate manager.
• The manager must respond to the grievance within 10 days after receiving the grievance.

Level II

• If you are not satisfied with the response at Level I or if you failed to receive a response, you may, within 10 days, submit an appeal to the Human Resources Department.
• Within 10 days, the Human Resources Department must schedule a conference with you to discuss the grievance.
• Human Resources must provide you and your site manager with a written response to the grievance within 15 days of the conference.

Level III

• If you do not accept the Level II decision or there was no response, the VEA Executive Board may submit your grievance to binding arbitration within 20 days of the response or with 20 days of the date the response was due.