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...Brown-Beasley has also charged that Champion and the Personnel Department have seriously mishandled his grievance case, failing to comply with requirements of the Harvard Salaried Personnel Manual and the common law tradition. In addition, he accused Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and Harvard's foremost labor relations troubleshooter, of telling him that the "reality" was that it would be virtually impossible to rehire Brown-Beasley even if he prevailed in his complaint. As a result, Brown-Beasley said, the University's general counsel, Daniel Steiner '54, pulled Powers off his case. Powers denies this charge...
Early last week, in the first formal decision in Brown-Beasley's appeal, Champion rejected the fired employee's appeal. The vice-president had conducted a personal investigation as head of the administrative department in which Brown-Beasley works: as head of Fiscal Services, Gibson reports to Champion. On September 15, Brown-Beasley informed Harvard that he wishes to push his appeal to the next step outlined in the personnel manual, a formal, trial-like hearing held before a three-member panel. That committee will present its findings to President Bok or Steiner for a final ruling...
...refusal of several principle figures, including Gibson, to comment last week hampered attempts to obtain administrative response to many of Brown-Beasley's accusations. Thus most of the questions he has raised remain unanswered...
...Brown-Beasley's charges, which he has backed with letters, memoranda and other documents, revolve around several projects in the Office of Fiscal Services. They include...
...defending Brown-Beasley's firing and his decision to uphold the dismissal, Champion last week cited Gibson's August 25 report on Brown-Beasley's actions, including the early August Holyoke Center incident. The acts described in the document, Champion said, constitute insubordination. The vice president also charged that Brown-Beasley "doesn't have any long-term relationships with anybody" and has a record of difficulties in a variety of jobs he has held at Harvard since...