POE v. HAWAI`I LABOR RELATIONS BD.

No. 23163.

40 P.3d 930 (2002)

97 Hawai`i 528

Lewis W. POE, Complainant/Appellant-Appellant, v. HAWAI`I LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, State of Hawai`i, Appellee-Appellee, and Benjamin J. Cayetano, Governor, State of Hawai`i, Respondent/Appellee-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

February 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis W. Poe, on the briefs, Complainant/Appellant-Appellant, pro se.

Valri Lei Kunimoto, on the briefs, Honolulu, for Appellee-Appellee Hawai`i Labor Relations Appeals Board, State of Hawai`i.

Kathleen N.A. Watanabe and Sarah R. Hirakami, Deputy Attorneys General, on the briefs, for Respondent/Appellee-Appellee Benjamin J. Cayetano, Governor, State of Hawai`i.

MOON, C.J., LEVINSON, NAKAYAMA, RAMIL, and ACOBA, JJ.


Opinion of the Court by ACOBA, J.

We hold that under Hawai`i Revised Statutes (HRS) chapter 89, pertaining to collective bargaining in public employment, a public employee pursuing an individual grievance exhausts his or her administrative remedies when the employee completes every step available to the employee in the grievance process and a request to the employee's exclusive bargaining representative to proceed to the last grievance step, which only the representative...

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