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1 5.04 For the purposes of this article, immediate family member shall mean: liusband, wife, child, parent, brother or sister of employee and parents of spouse of the employee. Family meil7ber shall mean: Brother or sister of spouse, grandparents, graildparents of spoLise, grandcllild as well as any relative living in the employee°s home. 15.05 Bereavement leave shall be eaclusive of sick time or any other accumulated time. ARTICLE 16 GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE 16.01 The term "grievance" shall mean an allegation by a bargaining unit employee that there has been a breach, misinterpretation, or iinproper application of this agreement. 16.02 A grievance may be filed by any member of the bargaining unit. Where a group of bargaining unit members desire to file a grievance involving a situation affecting more than one member of the bargaining unit in a similar manner, one member selected by such a group shall process the grievance. Such grievance shall be defined as a group grievance. T11e names of each member, on behalf of which the grievance is filed, shall be made available at the first hearing. Group grievances shall be presented in the first instance to the supervisor common to all employees in the group. The grievance procedure outlined in Section 16.05 shall be used throughout. 16.03) All grievances must be processed and answered at the proper step in the grievance progression to be considered at the neat step. Any grievance that is not timely appealed to the next step of the procedure, will be deemed to have been settled on the basis of the Employer"s answer at the last completed step. Tiine limits set forth herein may only be extended by inutual agreemenl: of the parties. The aggrieved may withdraw a grievance at any point by submitting, in writing, a statement to that affect, or by permitting the time requirements at any step to lapse without further appeal. Any grievance not answered by the Employer or his designee within the stipulated time limits shall be considered to have been appealed to the neat step in the grievance procedure. 16.04 Written grievances must be filed on the form provided by the FOP and shall contain, but noi be limited to, the following informatioii. l. Date and time grievance occurred; 2. Description of incident giving rise to the grievance; 3. Articles and sections of the agreenlent iilvolved; 4. Relief requested; 5. Signattire of the employee. 16.05 The following steps shall be followed in the processing of a grievance. Step 1. Within f ve (5) working days of the incidenl or l:nowledge of the incident (but in no case later than fifteen (15) calendar days from the actual facts which give rise to the grievance, the aggrieved employee shall submit his written grievance to the Shift Lieutenant, or lo