WAC 132P-33-125   Complaints against academic employees in accordance with the negotiated agreement.  In any instance where an administrator of the district receives a substantive complaint about the performance of an academic employee from students or the public or from personnel in the district, the administrator shall so notify the employee's supervising administrator and shall refer the complaint to that administrator. The academic employee shall be notified of the complaint by the supervising administrator within thirty days of the administration's first cognizance of the complaint.

     The supervising administrator and the academic employee shall then meet in a timely manner to discuss the complaint informally and, if possible, to resolve it. Such meeting shall normally take place during the academic employee's assignment period and shall ordinarily (except under extraordinary or emergency circumstances) be held prior to any other investigation of the complaint. If disciplinary action is deemed appropriate by the supervising administrator following such meeting(s), he or she shall proceed in accordance with Section 15.4 regarding progressive discipline.

     No disciplinary action shall result from a complaint unless the complaint has been reduced to writing, dated, and signed by the complainant and presented to the affected employee by the supervising administrator prior to any such disciplinary action.

     Nothing in this section shall be construed as taking the place of normal evaluation procedures as required elsewhere in this agreement, nor as taking the place of dismissal procedures as set forth in Article XI of this agreement. The employee shall have the right to YVCFT representation in implementation of this section.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 28B.50.140. 99-13-140, § 132P-33-125, filed 6/18/99, effective 7/19/99.]