04/19/2010

Don't Count on a Fair Grievance Process

As an old grievance hound myself and a veteran of a bunch of grievance hearings while representing faculty, mostly at UT institutions, I can tell readers that stacking the deck against faculty members is routine.  When faculty go into grievance hearings, they'd better go in with shields up.  After the hearing, they'd better keep them up for a long, long time.  Appearing below is an excerpt from another blogger's account of his grievance hearing and some more information to boot. 

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The Dean appointed Ms. Leah Hurley, Vice President of Legal Affairs to also be part of the Committee. Her job is to make sure that UT Southwestern is doing things legally. Her client is UT Southwestern. She is bound by oath to defend them.

She was bound by the rules of attorney client relationships to her client, UT Southwestern and not the grievant. Giving her a position on the committee was another flagrant fouls Her involvement was protested by the greivant, but Dean Alfred Gilman overruled it.

Dr. Willis Maddrey was the Chair of the Billing and Ethic Compliance Committee at UT Southwestern. The grievant protested his involvement. What was the likelihood that he would impartially rule in favor of the grievant and say, "We in the Billing and Ethics Compliance Committee do no enforce Ethics and Billing Compliance."

Anyone could see that this was not a fair process.


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Apr 19, 2010 8:21:43 AM | Faculty mistreatment, Grievances and mobbing, Lawsuits, UT Southwestern

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