25 NCAC 01J .0902. REVIEW/PERFORMANCE PAY DISPUTES USING THE GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE

The following are requirements and guidelines for using an existing internal grievance procedure to incorporate a performance pay dispute review process:

(1)           A performance pay dispute grievance may only proceed to those steps which have been given authority by the agency head to make a decision.  Employees shall not be required to go to a level which does not have the authority to reverse the decision they are disputing.  All applicable time frames of the grievance procedure, particularly in regard to turnaround time for decisions, shall be observed.  All procedural aspects of the grievance procedure shall remain unchanged.  As much as is possible, the agency should strive to give the employee a final agency decision in a reasonable period of time.

(2)           The employee may remove up to two of the initial members of the grievance committee.  If a member is removed, he shall be replaced with another member.

(3)           The grievance committee shall contain at least two non‑supervisory employees as part of its makeup.  Action by the employee in removing a member or members from the committee shall not operate to reduce the number of non‑supervisory employees on the committee to less than two.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 126‑4;

Eff. January 1, 1990.