Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 67 > Chapter 19a > Part 4 - Procedural Steps to Be Followed by Aggrieved Employee

• Administrator: means the person appointed under Section 67-19a-201 to head the Career Service Review Office. See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Career service employee: means a person employed in career service as defined in Section 63A-17-102. See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Division: means the Division of Human Resource Management. See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Excusable neglect: means harmless error, mistake, inadvertence, surprise, a failure to discover evidence that, through due diligence, could not have been discovered in time to meet the applicable time period, misrepresentation or misconduct by the employer, or any other reason justifying equitable relief. See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• Grievance: means :
       (7)(a) a complaint by a career service employee concerning any matter touching upon the relationship between the employee and the employer;
       (7)(b) any dispute between a career service employee and the employer;
       (7)(c) a complaint by a reporting employee that a public entity has engaged in retaliatory action against the reporting employee ; and
       (7)(d) a complaint that the employer subjected the employee to conditions that a reasonable person would consider intolerable, including abusive conduct. See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• Office: means the Career Service Review Office created under Section 67-19a-201. See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• Person: means :
       (24)(a) an individual;
       (24)(b) an association;
       (24)(c) an institution;
       (24)(d) a corporation;
       (24)(e) a company;
       (24)(f) a trust;
       (24)(g) a limited liability company;
       (24)(h) a partnership;
       (24)(i) a political subdivision;
       (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
       (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Reporting employee: means an employee of a public entity who alleges that the public entity engaged in retaliatory action against the employee. See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• Retaliatory action: means to do any of the following to an employee in violation of Section 67-21-3:
       (11)(a) dismiss the employee;
       (11)(b) reduce the employee's compensation;
       (11)(c) fail to increase the employee's compensation by an amount that the employee is otherwise entitled to or was promised;
       (11)(d) fail to promote the employee if the employee would have otherwise been promoted; or
       (11)(e) threaten to take an action described in Subsections (11)(a) through (d). See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Supervisor: means the person:
       (12)(a) to whom an employee reports; or
       (12)(b) who assigns and oversees an employee's work. See Utah Code 67-19a-101
• Writing: includes :
       (48)(a) printing;
       (48)(b) handwriting; and
       (48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5