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CHAPTER VI

ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY
GRIEVANCE MACHINERY

Legal Bases:

1) Section 35 of PD 807
2) RA 7877
3) Section 1, Rule IX of EO 180
4) Board Res. No. 91, s, 2001 dated December 14, 2001

I. RATIONALE

For the furtherance and protection of interest of employees in the public service and pursuant to
the provisions articulated in Section 35 of PD 807 and in Section 1, Rule IX of the implementing
Rules of Executive Order 180, employee shall have the right to present their complaints and
grievances to the management and have them settled as expeditiously as possible in the interest
of the employee concerned, the University and the government as a whole.

Likewise, the University takes proper steps towards the creation of an atmosphere conductive to
good supervisor-employee relations and the improvement of employee morale, the Isabela State
University hereby install a grievance procedure so as not to adversely affect efficient and effective
delivery of public services.

II. OBJECTIVES

General:

To help promote employee-management peace and better employee-management
relations, thereby fostering harmony and productivity in the University.

Specific:

1) Establish an orderly method for handling disputes or reactive one when it is already
existing;
2) Encourage regular dialogue between employee and supervisors to discontentment and
disenchantment of all concerns;
3) Settled disputes at the lowest possible level of the University;
4) Ensure the aggrieved employee freedom from coercion, discrimination and reprisal,
speedy and impartial handling of grievance;
5) Ensure that the aggrieved employee and the subject of the complaint shall have the right
to appeal as hereby provided;
6) Ensure that a grievance procedure shall be considered not only relation to the subject in
complaint but also to the aggrieved employee personal situation; and
7) Allow party to appeal from the results of the grievance negotiated step by step until a final
binding and executory decision is reached.