20.18 - GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES.
20.18 GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES.
An agreement with an employee organization which is the exclusive
representative of public employees in an appropriate unit may provide
procedures for the consideration of public employee grievances and of
disputes over the interpretation and application of agreements.
Negotiated procedures may provide for binding arbitration of public
employee grievances and of disputes over the interpretation and
application of existing agreements. An arbitrator's decision on a
grievance may not change or amend the terms, conditions or
applications of the collective bargaining agreement. Such procedures
shall provide for the invoking of arbitration only with the approval
of the employee organization, and in the case of an employee
grievance, only with the approval of the public employee. The costs
of arbitration shall be shared equally by the parties.
Public employees of the state or public employees covered by civil
service shall follow either the grievance procedures provided in a
collective bargaining agreement, or in the event that grievance
procedures are not provided, shall follow grievance procedures
established pursuant to chapter 8A, subchapter IV, or chapter 400, as
applicable. Section History: Early Form
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 20.18] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1118, § 1; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §145
Referred to in § 235A.15, 279.19