Mission
The Employee Concerns Program (ECP) has systems to ensure that concerns are appropriately, fairly, and fully considered. Is an alternative reporting system. To carry out its mission, the DOE ECP works with all elements throughout the DOE complex to ensure that employees have and are aware of effective means to have their concerns fairly and fully considered. Encourages employees to seek resolution through local complaint or dispute resolution systems, or with first line supervisors, but that alternatively they have the right to report Employee Concerns through the ECP. The DOE ECP encourages the free and open expression of employee concerns and provides DOE federal, contractor, and subcontractor employees with an independent avenue to raise any concern related, but not limited to, health, safety, the environment, security, quality, management practices, or reprisal for raising a concern.
Employee Concerns Program is designed to:
- Encourage open communication
- Inform employees of the proper forum for consideration of their concerns
- Ensure employees can raise issues without fearing reprisal/retaliation
- Address employee concerns in a timely and objective manner
- Provide employees with an avenue for consideration of concerns that fall outside existing systems.
- Address issues, including, but not limited to, health, safety, the environment, security, quality, management practices, or reprisal for raising a concern.