§76-42 Grievance procedures. The director of human resources development shall promulgate a uniform plan for the creation of grievance procedures in the various departments. The rules and regulations relating to grievance procedures shall conform to the following principles:

(1) An employee may, without resort to formal procedures, discuss informally any problem relating to the employee's conditions of employment with any of the employee's supervisors.

(2) In presenting a grievance, the employee shall be assured freedom from coercion, discrimination or reprisal.

(3) An employee shall have the right to be represented by a person or persons of the employee's own choosing at any stage in the presentation of the employee's grievance.

(4) All proceedings relating to the handling of employee grievances shall so far as practicable be conducted during office hours. [L 1955, c 274, pt of §1; RL 1955, §3-21(v); am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §11; HRS §76-42; gen ch 1985; am L 1994, c 56, §21]