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FEDSMILL staff has over 40 years of federal sector labor relations experience on the union as well as management side of the table and even some time as a neutral.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTIONS FOR FEDS – RECENT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS DOJ is busy trying to legally substantiate paying Trump $230 million for enduring the same process every other suspected and/or indicted citizen endures-but without being paid. But it somehow found a … Continue reading

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WHY HAVE UNIONS NOT TRIED THIS? A budget shutdown puts a lot of pain on federal employees.  No one gets a check during the shutdown and some even must continue to go to work, incurring commuting costs and denying them … Continue reading

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JOB REASSIGNMENTS CAN BE ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION Back in 2024 the Supreme Court held that some job reassignments have enough of an adverse impact on employees that the employee can file a discrimination claim.  Since then, the courts have been trying … Continue reading

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MENOPAUSAL DISCRIMINATION IS LEGAL, BUT…    Virtually all the case law holds that discrimination against employees because they are in their menopausal period of life is not illegal.  (Yes, we know. That sounds insane given the hard connection between it and … Continue reading

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THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR UNION FREE SPEECH RIGHTS Thankfully, the instances of union members being blackballed, beaten or even murdered for opposing the union’s leadership or its policies are few and very far in between today.  But that does … Continue reading

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FROM THEIR LIPS TO GOD’S EARS Without triggering a theological inquisition about  whether God has ears or even more fundamental questions, I want to share with you the latest Federal Court of Appeals decision blocking Trump’s Executive Order to kill … Continue reading

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OUR COMPLIMENTS TO NTEU FOR… Its newsletter to members-only updating them on all the court cases it and other unions have filed against the various Trump efforts to destroy unions,  fire federal employees, and turn the Executive Branch into a … Continue reading

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DON’T BE A SUCKER FOR THIS AWARDS PROGRAM The White House revels in taking some federal program that was around long before its current occupant arrived and declaring it new, ingenious, and the best ever—or words to that effect. A … Continue reading

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WHEN DINOSAURS DECIDE FULL-TIME TELEWORK REQUESTS With our apologies to the dinosaur community, we have to say we immediately thought of the stereotypical behemoths when we read about an agency official who decided that “telework was not an entitlement.” Hew … Continue reading

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WHAT COUNTS AS A WHISTLEBLOWER RETALIATION? Loved this post from the Devadoss Law Firm (Click here) .  I suspect with all the shenanigans going on in government right now there will be more and more opportunities to blow the whistle … Continue reading

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