Step 4 Settlement Agreement:  Article 16; Discipline Procedure (1988)

This is in response to the issues you raised in your letter of December 18, 1987, and step 4 Grievance (N7C- NA-C 21, dated June 29, 1988) concerning the maintenance of employee disciplinary records, as well as the Step 4 grievance (H4C-5F-C 43882) challenging the management practice of including in past element of disciplinary actions the original action issued and the final action resulting from modification of the orlglnal action.

In full and final settlement of of all disputes on these issues, it is agreed that:
1. All records of totally overturned disciplinary actions will be removed from the supervisor’s personnel records as well as from the employee’s Official Personnel Folder.
2. If a dlsc plenary action has been modified, the original action may be modified by pen and ink changes so as to obscure the original disciplinary action in the employee’s Official Personnel Folder and in the supervisor’s personnel records, or the original action may be deleted from the records and the discipline record reissued as modified.
3. In the past element listing in disciplinary actions, only the final action resulting from a modified disciplinary action will be included, except when modification is the result of a “last chance” settlement, or if discipline is to be reduced to a lesser penalty after an intervening period of time and/or certain conditions are met.