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EEOC PROVIDES ADA GUIDANCE FOR EMPLOYEES’ DOCTORS If you have ever been involved with a disabled employee’s request for a reasonable accommodation, you know that a lot depends of what the employee’s doctor does and writes. EEOC just gave them … Continue reading
FMLA QUIZ: WHO IS RIGHT AND WHO IS NOT? Here are the facts of a 2015 MSPB decision in an adverse action suspension case. See if you remember the right answer. The employee left the office the morning of September … Continue reading
AFGE CELEBRATES ITS NOT-SO-SECRET SUCCESS FORMULA Even a quick check of AFGE’s current national newsletter will give you an idea of how proud and happy the union is to have achieved an on-going level of 300,000 dues paying members. While … Continue reading
FEDERAL WHISTLEBLOWER RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS VIDEO Whistleblowing laws have changed a lot in the last few years and most of the change has been good for employees. Union reps should make sure they can spot the situations where employees qualify … Continue reading
TIMELINESS OF GRIEVANCES VERSUS REMEDY TIME PERIODS: LMR RUSSIAN ROULETTE Let’s assume that a union filed a timely institutional grievance on May 1, 2014 claiming that its members had been denied full travel mileage reimbursement as required by the agreement … Continue reading
CHURCH LADY SMITES DOD Score another one for all the Sunday church-going Christians in their battle to spend their Sabbath worshiping. This time DOD learned the hard way that it must offer a “reasonable accommodation” to allow employees to practice … Continue reading
UNIONS NEED MANAGEMENT’S HELP ON THIS Tucked away in a little visited part of the labor law (5 USC 7120(c)) is an obligation that unions with exclusive recognition over federal employees must file annual financial reports with the IRS and … Continue reading
WORKERS COMP FOR THE OVERWORKED The Department of Labor recently decided a case that reminds practitioners of an overworked employee’s right to collect workers compensation. In August 2013 an employee filed an occupational disease claim alleging that he sustained a … Continue reading
WHO IS JOE HILL? SPRINGSTEEN KNOWS Joe Hill is an American labor movement legend whose stories and songs contributed heavily to the growth of unions in the early part of the last century. Because only die-hard unionists may know who … Continue reading