Accessing CAPE's Representation Services

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
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• Meet and consults with management on issues impacting CAPE members such as classification specification changes, departmental policies, career path issues, and more
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• 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.