[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR16.11]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 16_FOREIGN SERVICE GRIEVANCE SYSTEM--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  16.11  Grievance Board consideration of grievances.

    (a) Filing of grievance. A grievant whose grievance is not resolved 
satisfactorily under agency procedures (Sec.  16.7) shall be entitled to 
file a grievance with the Grievance Board no later than 60 days after 
receiving the agency decision. In the event that an agency has not 
provided its decision within 90 days of presentation, the grievant shall 
be entitled to file a grievance with the Grievance Board no later than 
150 days after the date of presentation to the agency. The Board may 
extend or waive, for good cause, the time limits stated in this section.
    (b) Exhaustion of agency procedures. In the event that the Grievance 
Board finds that a grievance has not been presented for agency 
consideration or that a grievance has been expanded or modified to 
include materially different elements, the Board shall return the 
grievance to the official responsible for final agency review unless the 
agency waives any objection to Board consideration of the grievance 
without such review.
    (c) Prescription of interim relief. If the Grievance Board 
determines that the agency is considering any action of the character of 
separation or termination of the grievant, disciplinary action against 
the grievant, or recovery from the grievant of alleged overpayment of 
salary, expenses, or allowances, which is related to a grievance pending 
before the Board, and that such action should be suspended, the agency 
shall suspend such action until the Board has ruled upon the grievance. 
Notwithstanding such suspension of action, the head of the agency 
concerned or a chief of mission or principal officer may exclude an 
officer or employee from official premises or from the performance of 
specified duties when such exclusion is determined in writing to be 
essential to the functioning of the post or office

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to which the officer or employee is assigned.
    (d) Inquiry into grievances. The Board shall conduct a hearing at 
the request of a grievant in any case which involves disciplinary 
action, or a grievant's retirement from the Service under sections 633 
and 634 of the Act, or which in the judgment of the Board can best be 
resolved by a hearing or by presentation of oral argument. In those 
grievances in which the Board holds no hearing, the Board shall offer to 
each party the opportunity to review and to supplement, by written 
submission, the record of proceedings prior to its decision.