Skelly Rights

Question 1

Who do skelly rights apply to

Answer 1

The public sector

Question 2

Skelly rights provide that….

Answer 2

A public employee cannot be suspended or terminated from a job before a hearing called a skelly hearing.

Question 3

An employee that is disciplined without the skelly process is entitled to….

Answer 3

Full back pay for the period of time up until a proper hearing is held regardless of whether the discipline itself is upheld

Question 4

The premise of skelly rights

Answer 4

1972 US Supreme Court case provides that a public employee has property interest in their jobs. The constitution prohibits the government from taking away property without due process.

Question 5

Before you can be suspended, demoted or terminated, you must be given….

Answer 5

• notice of a hearing
• notice of the proposed discipline in writing
• the reason for the proposed discipline in writing
• other pertinent information, including copies of the policy allegedly violated and any other statements or documents which the employer considered in proposed discipline
• the right to representation at, and in preparation for the hearing
• the right to respond to the person who proposed the discipline.