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10.H Formal Grievance Procedures
If informal procedures and consultation do not provide resolution of
a dispute involving a faculty member, it may be necessary to resort
to formal dispute resolution procedures (discussed briefly below).
For information about any form of discrimination or harassment,
contact the Office of Institutional Equity at 763-0235.
To obtain a copy of the formal grievance procedure for your unit,
contact the dean’s office, the Faculty Senate Office (764-0303),
the Office of Academic Human Resources (763-8938), or the Office of
the Vice President and General Counsel (764-0304).
Any questions regarding the appropriate venue should be directed to
the Academic Human Resources Office (763-8938).
For information about additional services on the Flint and Dearborn
campuses, contact the Human Resources office on each campus: Dearborn,
313/593-5190; Flint, 810/762-3150.
Formal grievance procedures are available
to all faculty with complaints
concerning the terms and conditions of their employment. Each school
and college has adopted a faculty grievance policy, based on a model
policy. The text of the model policy is available on the SACUA website
at <www.umich.edu/~sacua/Facres/gdoc.html>.
Formal grievance procedures are available when there is a charge that
the school or a department has reached a manifestly unfair or illegal
decision concerning an aspect of an eligible grievant’s employment.
Grievants may challenge all aspects of the decision-making process
except
those that involve conclusionary judgments about professional competence.
The procedures are not available for challenges to the desirability
of unit or University policy, nor are they available for claims that
are patently frivolous or without merit. The policies all have time
limits within which one must bring a claim, so it is important to determine
the time limit that applies in each case. Most policies stipulate that
a grievant has 180 calendar days from the date the grievant first knew
or could reasonably have been expected to know of the decision or event
that gave rise to the grievance to request the formation of a formal
faculty review board. (This time period is 90 days for the Dearborn
Campus and 120 days for the University Library.) The policies typically
require a grievant to first try to resolve a dispute informally with
the person who made the decision or who has the authority to provide
redress before filing a formal grievance.
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