Labor and Employee Relations website

Acts as resource to campus units, supervisors, and employees to facilitate and ensure that practices, rules, and policies relating to the workplace are properly administered and in compliance. Staff in this section provide information and services concerning work rules and relationships, campus policy interpretation, collective bargaining and employee relations.

Contact staff for information concerning policy, unions, contract interpretation and administration, job performance, grievances, discipline and employee relations education, disability, CDL drug testing, shared benefits and FMLA.

Services include:

Employee Relations

• advising and assisting with the application and interpretation of provisions in University policy documents and union contracts as they relate to employer/employee issues
• monitoring disciplinary proceedings between supervisors, employees, and employee representatives for policy compliance
• assisting with the informal resolution of workplace disputes
• acting as the designee for grievance hearings and responses at the Chancellor's step of the grievance procedure
• providing information and assistance to employees in filing for disability leave and shared benefits
• advising and assisting employees in filing Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) requests
• coordinating controlled substances/alcohol testing programs for Commercial Driver's License holders
• coordinating with health care providers and others in fitness to work issues and requests
• providing information and training on labor and employee relations issues
• working with campus units and employees in addressing the personal and procedural aspects of issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, workplace violence, fitness to work determinations, and insubordination

Labor Relations

• assisting in determining campus management representation on University bargaining committees
• participating in all negotiations conducted between the University and unionized groups
• providing contract administration and interpretation for those subject to union contract provisions
• assisting in the resolution of jurisdictional and other disputes between unions
• meeting with union representatives formally and informally to address issues and concerns
• interpreting and articulating labor legislation and advising supervisors and employees on matters relating to policy and law as they relate to unionized employees