Whistleblower protection policy revisions proposed, employee comments sought

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News for UC Agriculture & Natural Resources employees.

Author: Pamela Kan-Rice

Published on: January 5, 2015

The University of California is proposing extensive revisions to the UC Policy for Protection of Whistleblowers from Retaliation and Guidelines for Reviewing Retaliation Complaints (Whistleblower Protection Policy), which applies to all University employees and all applicants for University employment.

The revisions are intended to improve the administration of the policy and ensure that complaints alleging whistleblower retaliation are processed more expeditiously. The revisions are also designed to make it easier for complainants to understand the process; they clearly outline what complainants need to include when filing a complaint under the policy and describe what happens at each step of the process.

The proposed policy is posted online at http://ucanr.edu/sites/Whistleblower/files/204102.pdf

Employees are invited to provide comments regarding the proposed policy to Robin Sanchez at rgsanchez@ucanr.edu by January 28, 2015.

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Comments: 1

Comments:

by Susan McCormick

on January 14, 2015 at 3:09 PM

UC is not and has never been able to investigate itself in an unbiased manner. Whistleblower or grievances are rarely upheld in the claimant’s behalf, but rather they are investigated with the primary purpose of covering up law and policy violations by management. UC protects its management and will never hold them accountable. Even the "independent" investigators hired outside the university are incapable of finding fault with management, except if it is a well know judge like Carlos Moreno who investigated the UCLA faculty racial discrimination problem. UC is afraid of any negative public exposure and will avoid it at all costs. Until staff, faculty and students are treated as “the core” of the university and are protected against unlawful violations, then UC cannot call itself a work-class university.