Sample Complaint Letters to HR

What Are Grievance Letters? 

A grievance letter is a letter of complaint to your employer. Grievance letters offer employees who have complaints regarding a situation(s) at work with an effective and polite way to start a conversation about their experience(s) with their employer. These letters also provide employers with an opportunity to correct the situation and prevent the employee from taking their complaints to the state or Federal agency responsible for enforcing these laws—which could end in a lawsuit against the employer.   

Who Are Grievance Letters For? 

In most cases, grievance letters are used by employees who are experiencing discrimination at work. 

Why Are Grievance Letters Important? 

Grievance letters are important because they: 

  1. offer employees with an opportunity to voice their concerns, experiences, and opinions, and 
  2. provide employers with an opportunity to resolve a conflict(s) at work in a fair, effective, and quick manner. 

Our Sample Complaint Letters to HR for Each Type of Workplace Discrimination 

Here is a compilation of all of the sample grievance letters we have by each specific type of discrimination. Each of these articles provides comprehensive information on the type of discrimination as well as a fully-fleshed out template for what the complaint letter to HR for that type of discrimination would be.