What is the role of the person I select to accompany me to the second-step meeting and will that person be allowed to participate in the second-step meeting?
The role of that individual is essentially one of supporter and counselor. The selected individual is not entitled to be an active participant in the second-step meeting, although an agency is certainly free to allow such participation if it chooses. Unless permitted by the agency, the selected individual may not directly ask questions of the witnesses, make opening or closing arguments, answer questions on behalf of a grievant or in any other way directly participate in the meeting. (If the second-step respondent allows the grievant’s selected individual to participate, the second-step respondent’s selected individual may also participate in the meeting to the same extent allowed for the grievant’s selected individual.) On the other hand, however, for a grievant’s right to be accompanied by a person of his or her choice to be meaningful, the selected individual cannot be required to act merely as a silent observer. Rather, the individual selected by a grievant must be allowed the oppo
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