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Merit Appeals Board March 10, 2022 <br />CHR. CABANAS: Any Board members, any questions on the staffing. <br />MS. MATHEWS: I have a quick question. You've mentioned all the grievances twice. What it <br />sounds like there's an increase. Are they strictly COVID related and they're just going to go <br />away naturally as COVID goes away or are people just bitchier and grumpier or—could you <br />expand a little on what that is. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: I'll say Option B. I won't repeat what you said but I'll say Option B. <br />And I don't know if it is specifically related to COVID. It's just that during this period we've <br />just seen an uptick—and it's not only in COVID related, it's a wide variety of things—and it's <br />not only one department. <br />So, I don't know if it's just the increase in stress because of COVID and the environment that <br />we're in now but it's a wide range of grievances that I've seen in many of our departments. It's <br />not just one department. I think it's over a bunch of different departments. <br />MR. KUNZ: In youroh, I'm sorry, go ahead. <br />MS. MATHEWS: So, are you guys playing whack -a -mole or is there something where you <br />think that you can affect a change where you're not having to deal with as many of these? <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: No, absolutely—with the grievances have that have, like, this common <br />theme to it—we'll address it. If whether it's training, whether it's meeting with the department, <br />whether it's workflow, whether it's going in and doing a position audit to determine that the <br />person is not working out of class. <br />So, we de evaluate the grievances that come in. But, for the most part, it's not those types of <br />grievances. It's a lot of personality -type issues. So, it's a wide -range. But for the ones that we <br />feel that we, in HR, can assist with—assist the department with to address before it even gets to <br />that point—we do look at those things. <br />MR. KUNZ: I just wanted to comment. Have you seen grievances in past changes in <br />Administrations when directors, deputies, mission statements change—and everyone else that's <br />been in the department, has been there for several—well, a couple Administrations—and then <br />now there's more proactivity, there's more demand, the workload increases. And so, long- <br />standing employees feel frustrated and can't get a handle on the expectations—new expectations <br />or something like that? <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: I think, in general, we get grievances related to those specific issues. <br />There—when there's a change in management, there's a change in supervision, there might be a <br />re-org. and the employees working in certain divisions will now have a new supervisor, a new <br />directorso, the department has a new vision, a new objective, new goals—which would <br />conflict with those that might have been in place for so many years. <br />Page 25 <br />