All employees of the University who complete a probationary period and who agree to arbitrate any contract claims over the termination of their employment shall be "satisfaction employees," unless they are employed pursuant to a contract, collective bargaining agreement, or the University tenure policy, or unless they are excepted as follows: Temporary employees, student employees, upper administrators (University President, Provost, Vice Presidents, and Vice Provosts), and probationary employees. Temporary employees, student employees, upper administrators, probationary employees, and those who do not agree to arbitrate termination claims shall be "at-will" employees.
All new regular employees of Michigan Technological University who are not employed pursuant to a contract, collective bargaining agreement, or the University tenure policy, shall serve a probationary period of nine (9) months. During the probationary period, employees shall be considered to be "at-will employees" and not eligible for alternative dispute resolution procedures.
The termination of employees for lack of satisfactory performance after their probationary period normally shall come through progressive disciplinary procedures (see MTU Procedures Manual, 5.8). The University reserves the right to end any program or service, which may include the necessity of laying off employees for appropriate business and economic reasons. The rights of affected employees are covered by the University policy on layoffs (see MTU Procedures Manual, 5.7.4).
This policy shall be implemented by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs.
The initial procedures implementing this policy have been approved by the Board of Control, and there shall be no substantial changes to the procedures without approval of the Board of Control.
| History | ||
| Prior: | 09/18/98 | |
| Adopted: | 08/03/2000 | Changed Executive Vice President and Provost title to Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs |