If you do not agree with a decision related to the City's merit system, you can file an appeal.

Find out how to share documents with the Civil Service Commission to support an appeal.

If you need to postpone your hearing or schedule it after after 5 pm, here's what to do.

City staff: When someone makes an appeal, the department needs to prepare a staff report in response.

City staff: Learn how to postpone or cancel an upcoming hearing about an appeal.

Anyone can ask for a copy of a Civil Service Commission report related to a hearing.

If a City department has not been hiring or promoting employees fairly, you can ask for an investigation.

If the Employee Relations Director makes a decision or decides to make a change to a current bargaining unit, and if an employee or labor union disagrees with the decision, within sixty (60) days from the Director’s decision, a protest can be filed.

The Employee Relations Director decides which job classes of employees are to be considered as management, supervisory or confidential. If an employee disagrees, the decision can be reviewed by an administrative law judge for a hearing and decision.

Any registered employee union can ask to be recognized as the labor union representative of a bargaining unit; another employee labor union may challenge to be the labor union of a bargaining unit; or employees or employee labor unions may file to decertify the union of the unit.

Find out how to file a labor complaint against a department if you are a peace officer or management employee. The Employee Ordinance explains what are considered reasons for filing charges.

City staff: If your department has received an unfair labor complaint from a peace officer or a management employee, here’s what to do.

MTA staff: An action request allows you to postpone or cancel an upcoming Civil Service Commission hearing. It may also be used if the appeal is resolved administratively.

MTA staff: When a service-critical employee makes an appeal, you need prepare a staff report in response.