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Why Do Employees File Discrimination Complaints and Grievances? Advice to Managers and Supervisors
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Why Employees File
DoD
Tue Jul 8, 2008 12:48 PM
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There is no great mystery as to why employees file complaint or grievances. Most do so because they truly feel that they were discriminated or grieved against. (After 36 years in the HR world I can tell you that, unfortunately, this does happen.) Some do so because they feel this is their only way to get their situation addressed or acknowledged. (This is generally fostered by a lack of organizational communications and a work environment that is not worker/management or generational friendly.) And, a few do so because they can. (Yes, you will always have a small but active group of employees who do this just because they can and the fact that there their actions are not challenged only helps to encourage them.) The best way to reduce complaints and grievances is for organizational managers and their HR advisors to analyze the complaints and grievances being filed and make the corrections applicable to that organization.
Why Employees File
Treasury
Tue Jul 8, 2008 9:21 PM
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A good article which lays all the blame for grievances at the feet of management. There is no discussion that just perhaps the employee is a misfit, took the job only for the money or benefits, or is simply unqualified to do the job. Agencies subtly approve employees filing complaints with their constant reminders to employees and admonishment to managers not to step out of line in the EEO arena. It doesn't cost an employee anything to file a grievance or EEO complaint. Consider that both the union and EEO can justify their existence by showing its consitituency/members how many complaints/grievances they handled. And finally, while the article does advocate settlement, you know, just sometimes the manager is right and the employee is wrong. But don't write an article about that - it wouldn't be politically correct.
Re: Why Employees File
NAVFAC
Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:12 PM
You forgot a big one
Federal Agency
Wed Jul 9, 2008 7:41 AM
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Many employees grieve because the manager did, in fact, discriminate or violate the employee's rights. I had a manager that trumped up charges on my supervisor. The super was given an option of a suspension or a detail to another agency. Within the next 4 months, all the staff over 40 left. I took a cut in pay to leave. The manager had 3 EEO complaints filed against him in the next 3 years. All the complaints were settled for the employee's first offer. The manager was investigated by the IG's office. His perjury during an EEO Hearing has been referred to DOJ for prosecution. He has been allowed to move to another agency. I just feel sorry for the employees now working for him.
Sometimes there are just bad managers and the complaint and grievance process is the employee's only protection.
Re: You forgot a big one
DOT
Wed Jul 9, 2008 11:56 AM
Grievance
Dept of Veteran Affairs
Wed Jul 9, 2008 2:22 PM
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If a supervisor crosses the line of constructive criticism to insults and belittling, is that grounds for a grievance?
Grievances...
EPA
Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:03 PM
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Delete the word "stress"? That sounds like management.
I have a disability and went through numerous procedures as well as passing out at work and being taken out on a gurney.
I took advantage of the leave bank (thank goodness it was there) but after all was said and done (two heart procedures and leave -- even LWOP -- because I couldn't stop my BP or my heart rate from busting through the roof.
My boss? He proceeded to call a meeting to 'talk about my workload, and then quickly changed it to my leave..." I was shocked. He knew what was going on. "you don't have any leave and WE would like all employees to have at least two weeks in the bank for special reasons". Excuse me? Did I plan this? NO...is it valid, well my cardiologist who wrote you thought it was...." Harrassment, discrimination, EEO complaint? What would YOU suggest? BS -- managers doing things like this are not good managers and should be asked to step down. Definitely NOT a manager.
Management by Walking About
Pilgrims Pride
Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:50 PM
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Over the past several years, I have found that by leaving the confines of my office and getting out amongst the people, I receive a lot more insight to the needs of my fellow workers.
I have even attempted to learn a different language in an effort to show my determination to better understand what my non-speaking workers face each day in terms of communication difficulties.
The respect level of my co-workers has risen as well as the communication of everyone at my facility. My plant workesr are more apt to show and tell me of how to make things better because they percieve me as the guy that gets things done on everyone's behalf.