The Wiscasset School Committee on March 26 heard and denied its first employee grievance. The panel took the vote denying the grievance after a closed-door session at Wiscasset High School.

Information was not immediately available on what prompted the grievance. A Maine Education Association representative attended the executive session. The denial vote took place in an open session, about three hours into the committee’s regular monthly meeting. A series of executive sessions got under way at about the two-hour mark.

Before hearing the grievance, the committee met briefly, also in an executive session, to go over the procedure for hearing it. The year-old committee had never handled a grievance before, Chairman Steve Smith said.