A grievance in the employment context refers to a specific, formal notice of employee dissatisfaction expressed through an identified procedure. Grievance procedures typically define within how many days after the incident or situation occurred that a grievance must be filed, in what form it must be filed, with whom it is filed and define rights such as the right to a hearing, representation at such hearing, the right to a timely response and rights to an appeal.
In the collective bargaining agreements between AALA and LAUSD (both certificated and classified), a grievance