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GENERAL WORKPLACE POLICIES <br />2. OPEN DOOR POLICY <br />During your employment with the Utilities you may have certain concerns, such as an <br />issue, suggestion, complaint, or question, about your job, your working conditions or some <br />related matter. We strongly encourage you to raise any such concerns to Utilities <br />management, so that we will have the benefit of your input on the matter and you will have <br />the benefit of our best efforts to address any concerns you might have. <br />In addition, you are required to report any conduct in the workplace or related to the <br />Utilities that you believe is illegal, and to ask questionsif you are not sure whether any <br />particular conduct is legal or appropriate. Please also see the discussion under the <br />Whistleblower Policy in this Handbook. Anyone who fails to report a known or suspected <br />violation of law, regulation or internal policy may be considered to have committed an <br />equally serious violation. That individual may be subject to corrective and/or disciplinary <br />action, up to and including discharge. <br />Under this Open Door Policy, we ask that you first raise any concern about your <br />employment or the workplace with your immediate supervisor, if possible, and follow the <br />steps below to have your concerns addressed. (Please note that issues of harassment should <br />k.) <br />1.If you have any concern about any aspect of employment with the Utilities or with the <br />possible. In most cases your immediate supervisor will be the person in the best <br />position to address your concerns. The supervisor and the Utilities will make every <br />effort to keep the matter confidential to the extent possible within the confines of the <br />rights and obligations of you and the Utilities. <br />2.If for some reason you are not comfortable discussing your concerns with your <br />immediate supervisor, choose another Utilities manager or Director with whom to <br />discuss your concerns. Again, he/she will make every effort to keep the matter <br />confidential to the extent possible. <br />3. <br />Resources Representative. <br />The Utilities strictly prohibits retaliation or reprisal of any kind against an employee who <br />makes a good faith report regarding a known, or suspected, violation or concern regarding <br />any law. <br />4 <br />January 2020 <br />161 <br />