Vermont Statutes Title 3 Sec. 1001
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 3 Sec. 1001
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Board: means the State Labor Relations Board established under section 921 of this title. See
- Collective bargaining service fee: means a fee deducted by an employer from the salary or wages of an employee who is not a member of an employee organization, which is paid to the employee organization that is the exclusive bargaining agent for the bargaining unit of the employee. See
- gender identity: means an individual's actual or perceived gender identity, or gender-related characteristics intrinsically related to an individual's gender or gender-identity, regardless of the individual's assigned sex at birth. See
- sexual orientation: means female or male homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
§ 1001. Grievances; applicants and excluded personnel
(a) Persons who are applicants for State employment in the classified service and classified employees in their initial probationary period and any extension or extensions thereof may appeal to the State Labor Relations Board if they believe themselves discriminated against on account of their race, color, creed, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or national origin.
(b) Permanent classified employees excluded from bargaining units shall be deemed to have the right of appeal in the same manner and to the same extent as those employees represented by a bargaining representative except that they may not be represented by a bargaining representative.
(c) Any dispute concerning the amount of a collective bargaining service fee may be grieved as set forth in the collective bargaining agreement through either an appeal to the Vermont Labor Relations Board in accordance with the Board’s rules concerning grievances, or through binding arbitration. (Added 1969, No. 113, § 1; amended 1971, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. April 3, 1972; 1991, No. 135 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 1993, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 32; 1999, No. 19, § 3; 2007, No. 41, § 4; 2015, No. 35, § 6, eff. May 26, 2015.)