CAPE offers you, as a member, many representation services to protect and improve your career both individually and as part of a group. As part of a collective bargaining unit, your membership in CAPE enhances career protections and opportunities for all CAPE-represented employees.
CAPE’s Professional Representation Services (partial list):
Individual Grievances
- Performance evaluation disputes
- Transfers
- Harassment
- Inequitable work assignments
- Challenging a negative additional responsibilities or working out-of-class ruling
- Challenging minor discipline
Group Matters
- Meet and confers with management on proposed changes to wages, hours, or other working conditions.
- Meet and consults with management on issues impacting CAPE members such as classification specification changes, departmental policies, career path issues, and more.
- General-in-character grievances over violations of the MOU impacting a group of employees in any CAPE-represented bargaining unit.
Investigative interviews and Skelly meetings (see Weingarten Rights)
Civil Service
- Severe disciplinary matters (i.e. discharge, lengthy suspension, reduction)
- Challenges to promotional exams
- Probationary reductions
- Claims of unlawful discrimination
Interactive Process
Return to work and/or work accommodation situations
Unfair Labor Practice Claims
- Retaliation
- Management’s refusal to process grievances
Career Counseling and Advice
- L.A. County promotional process
- Sup/subordinate issues
- How to deal with a difficult supervisor
- Transfers
- Out-of-class and additional responsibility situations
General Questions
- Interpretation of the CAPE MOUs
- The L.A. County Code
- Departmental or county-wide policies
- CAPE organizational matters and processes
To access CAPE’s professional representation services, call (626) 243-0340 to speak with a CAPE Business Agent.