[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 22CFR16.4]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 16--FOREIGN SERVICE GRIEVANCE SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 16.4  Time limits for grievance filing.

    (a) A grievance concerning a continuing practice or condition may be 
presented at any time if its adverse effect is presently continuing. 
Documents contained in official employee personnel files, for example, 
shall be deemed to constitute a continuing condition.
    (b) Subject to paragraph (a) of this section, a grievance under 
these regulations is forever barred, and the Grievance Board shall not 
consider or resolve the grievance, unless the grievance is presented 
within a period of 3 years after the occurrence or occurrences giving 
rise to the grievance, except that if the grievance arose earlier than 2 
years prior to the effective date of these regulations, the grievance 
shall be so barred, and no considered and resolved, unless it is 
presented within a period of 2 years after the effective date of these 
regulations, There shall be excluded from the computation of any such 
period any time during which the grievant was unaware of the grounds 
which are the basis of the grievance and could not have discovered such 
grounds if the grievant had exercised, as determined by the Grievance 
Board, reasonable diligence.
    (c) A grievance shall be deemed presented to the responsible 
official (Sec. 16.7(b)), transmitted to post or bureau (Sec. 16.7(c)) 
submitted for agency review (Sec. 16.8) or filed with the Grievance 
Board Sec. 16.11(a):
    (1) On the date of its dispatch by telegram, registered or certified 
mail, or receipted mail, in a diplomatic pouch;
    (2) On the date of its arrival at the appropriate office, if 
delivered by any other means.