Author Archives: AdminUN
HOW TO INTERPRET CONTRACTS AND LAWS A recent post about two FLRA members declaring the placement of a single letter in the labor law to be so significant as to make clear and unambiguous the answer to three substantial labor … Continue reading
MADAME CAROL’S BANGED UP CRYSTAL BALL AND THE MAGIC “S” J. K. Rowling should be writing this given the elements of wizardry in a recent FLRA decision making it look like it is right out of the Department of Magical … Continue reading
HOW TO KILL A UNION FROM WITHIN Kodak, Borders, Blockbuster, Lehman Brothers, Circuit City—and the list goes on. Most business schools will tell you now that they have had a chance to examine the corpse of each of those once … Continue reading
UPDATE ON OGE ADVERSE ACTION REGULATIONS Not long ago we pointed out a case where MSPB overturned an employee’s removal from FDIC because the agency failed to get approval from the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) of an FDIC-created rule … Continue reading
FLRA REGIONAL OFFICE SEMINARS AVAILABLE FLRA just distributed the announcement below. We have found these meetings interesting and helpful. Sign up fast before all the seats are gone.
A PLEASANT PARTICULARIZED NEED PRONOUNCEMENT: Test Yourself A nice thing happened last week. The Authority issued an easier to understand than normal, unanimous decision on particularized need. (AFGE, 68 FLRA 492 (2015)) See if you can predict what the ruling … Continue reading