Common use of EMPLOYEE CONCERNS PROGRAM Clause in Contracts

EMPLOYEE CONCERNS PROGRAM. (a) ORAU has established an Employee Concerns Program (ECP), modeled after the Department of Energy’s ECP. The ECP provides a means for employees to raise good-faith concerns that a policy or practice of ORAU or its subcontractors should be improved, modified, or terminated. Concerns can address health, safety, the environment, management practices, fraud, waste, or reprisal for raising a concern. (b) Per the ECP, subcontractor employees may raise concerns about actions of ORAU or its employees directly with ORAU. (c) The Subcontractor must notify its employees that: (1) ORAU has an ECP; (2) Employees are encouraged to first seek resolution with first-line supervisors or through existing complaint or dispute resolution systems, but that they have the right to report concerns through the ECP; (3) If a concern is not resolved by supervisors, or if the employee elects not to raise the concern with supervisory personnel, the concern may be reported to ORAU by calling: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇; and (4) ORAU will not tolerate reprisals against or intimidation of a who have reported concerns. (d) Upon request, Subcontractor must assist ORAU in resolution of employee concerns. (e) Subcontractor shall include this clause in subcontracts hereunder.