Grievance Information Detail

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Contract Articles 17.05

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Contract Violations

Holding

Grievance was GRANTED. The union claimed that the grievant was improperly prescreened for the position of claims service representative, PCN 20130.0. The facts of this case are undisputed. Grievant applied for the position of claims service specialist, PCN 20130.0, in July 1995. After this application was rejected in the prescreening process, she again applied for two other identical vacancies, and subsequently suffered the same result. Grievances were filed after each prescreened rejection, and were consolidated into one for the purposes of arbitration. Union position: the union claimed that the employer violated article 17.05 (a) (1) by failing to fill vacancies with the grievant, who possessed the minimum qualifications. First, the union alleged that grievant possessed the necessary undergraduate coursework since the DAS "minimum qualification conversion table" lists "associate degree" as indicating "equivalence". Second, grievant had 36 months experience.