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DEFECTIVE SICK LEAVE RESTRICTION OVERTURNED BY FLRA A Department of Army supervisor ordered an employee to provide medical justification for any sick leave despite the fact that the labor agreement said the agency had to have “legitimate reasons” to do … Continue reading
FSIP REJECTS AGENCY’S CWS “ADVERSE IMPACT” CLAIM While there are cob webs all over the FLRA headquarters thanks to our President’s decision to slow down the administration of justice, some decisions do manage to break free of the morass. A … Continue reading
MILITARY LEAVE DIFFERENTIAL PAY USERRA VICTORY People get called up for active military service for a variety of reasons ranging from being assigned to the front lines of a battle to providing direct or indirect support for soldiers in battle … Continue reading
ZIP IT! – WHEN MANAGERS VIOLATE YOUR PRIVACY This is not the first time we have written about managers who either can’t keep their mouth shut or their documents clean. The newest example is the Chief of Dental Services who … Continue reading
TEST YOURSELF: IS THERE A VIOLATION HERE? Read over the facts below and identify what, if anything, the union can do to help. The answer is provided below the facts. FACTS: Assume that an employee’s administrative workweek starts in the … Continue reading
TRUMP’S JEW LISTS And you thought this could not get any scarier? It appears Trump is a better student of history than we all thought because he just reached back about 90 years to replicate the maneuvers of a similar … Continue reading
SNOW DAYS AND THE FMLA Thought you might find helpful a new DOL note on how partial-week weather-related closures count toward FMLA leave. While DOL has no regulatory control over the civil service, OPM usually follows its advice. Sometimes that … Continue reading
DID YOU MISS THESE POSTS? Whether due to the shutdown, holidays or your “use or lose” leave, you may have missed a few of the more important pieces we have posted since October 1 concerning Civil Rights and Labor Relations. … Continue reading
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OUR PRESIDENT’S RENAMING FRENZY & YOU If you have not been in the District lately due to some use or lose leave or to treat a year-long migraine, you should know that the President is in the process of a … Continue reading
DOES FMLA COVER TRAVEL TIME? Those of us actually engaged in the practice of employee rights accepted long ago that an employee’s time traveling to and from a location where s/he provides covered FMLA assistance is covered as FMLA leave. … Continue reading