Document explains academic staff appeals process

The Personnel Policies and Procedures Committee of the Academic Staff Assembly has drafted a detailed document that describes the process academic staff members experience if they have filed an appeal or grievance that cannot be resolved satisfactorily at the department level. These include appeals of decisions on grievances, non-renewals and other job actions.

Committee chair Ann Wallace says that most employees have no reason to learn the appeals process unless they find themselves in a situation where they need to use it.

“The new document is designed to walk both employees and employers through the process of an academic staff appeal, because most people, employers included, do not go through this more than once,” Wallace says.