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Amended Navajo government employee grievance process moves to Navajo Council

Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee having thorough debate on 0109-14, which would change grievance process for Navajo Nation government employees and other Navajo workers on the Navajo Reservation. DELEGATE WALTER PHELPS The tribal grievance procedure that involved supervisor, personnel department works. DELEGATE ALTON SHEPHERD intention is good. Law & Order Committee is looking at how Office […]

Office of Navajo Labor Relations under attack

Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee now on LEGISLATION 0109-14legislation 0109-14: Relating to Law and Order, Health, Education and Human Services, Naabik’iyati’ and Navajo Nation Council; Amending Navajo Preference in Employment Act at 15 N.N.C. §§ 605, 610 and 612; Enacting New Section 614; and Redesignating Sections 615 through 620 (Sponsor: Honorable Dwight Witherspoon) NAVAJO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT […]

Labor Complaint against Navajo Nation Controller Grant in settlement talks

Here at Navajo Labor Commission hearing where it is Day 2 of the hearing involving a Labor Complaint filed against Navajo Nation Controller Mark Grant by five former Office of the Controller employees, who were Senior Accountants. The five individuals are Marietta Roan, Lucinda Davis, Levon Smiley, Valentina Sallis and Cynthia Deschinny. They are being […]

Possible settlement of Labor complaint against Navajo Nation Controller Grant?

I’M BACK HERE AT THE NAVAJO LABOR COMMISSION HEARING ON A COMPLAINT FILED BY FIVE FORMER NAVAJO NATION OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER AGAINST CONTROLLER MARK GRANT FOR ILLEGALLY LAYING THEM OFF IN SEPTEMBER 2013. YESTERDAY WAS DAY 1 OF THE HEARING. IT’S ABOUT 9:10 A.M. YESTERDAY’S CROSS EXAMINATION OF CONTROLLER GRANT BY ATTORNEY DAVID JORDAN […]

Navajo Nation Controller more concerned about performance than Navajo laws

Here at Navajo Labor Commission hearing where Commission is hearing Office of Navajo Labor Relations complaint filed by five former senior accountants against Controller Mark Grant for illegally laying them off in September 2013. CONTROLLER MARK GRANT STILL TESTIFYING AND BEING QUESTIONED BY HIS ATTORNEY, NAVAJO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEY HENRY HOWE. the layoff charts were […]

Objection – Navajo Justice Department testifying for witness, Controller Grant

Here at Navajo Labor Commission hearing where Commission is hearing Office of Navajo Labor Relations complaint filed by five former senior accountants against Controller Mark Grant for illegally laying them off in September 2013. NAVAJO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ATTORNEY HENRY HOWE direct your attention to tribal personnel policies, December 2013, page 60 and 61, layoff […]

Layoffs were opportunity for Navajo Nation Controller to get rid of people he didn’t want

Here at the Navajo Nation Labor Commission hearing on a Navajo Nation Office of Navajo Labor Relations complaint filed by five former Office of the Controller employees, who are allegeding that Controller Mark Grant illegally laid them off in September 2013. The hearing started at 9 a.m. this morning but was delayed until noon after […]

Settlement reached: Police versus Public Safety director

Navajo Labor Commission reconvenes at about 10:40 am, and Attorney David Jordan, representing tribal police officers/commanders, informs Labor Commission that settlement reached, that settlement put in writing. Former and current police officers/commanders each sign settlement. ATTORNEY DAVID JORDAN for tribal police officers/commanders The following police personnel have been contacted and Wallace Billy received settlement and […]

Settlement talks continue: Police v Public Safety director

Greetings Relatives/Frens, The Nvajo Nation Labor Commission has reconvened-continuing complaint filed against Navajo Division of Public Safety Director John Billiison by former and current Navajo Nation police officers/commanders. COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON CASEY WATCHMAN Parties have been in negotiations since Monday, 9/23/13. HENRY HOWE attorney for Billision Two isues need to be resolved for global settlement and […]

Tribal Police versus Management

Greetings Relatives/Frens, The Navajo Nation Labor Commission continued the hearing on the complaint filed by 11 current and former Navajo Nation police officers and commanders against Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety Director John Billison until 9 a.m. tomorrow, 9-24-13. In the meantime, I will track down photo of Billison. I tried taking photo of […]