Author Archives: AdminUN
FMLA OFTEN REQUIRES PERFORMANCE STANDARD ADJUSTMENTS Often an employer must adjust an employee’s performance standards once it approves the employee’s FMLA leave request. Not long ago a Federal Circuit Court spelled it out for LR practitioners on both sides of … Continue reading
DISCIPLINE’S “DISPARATE PENALTIES” DEFENSE MSPB just issued a decision that should help unions successfully represent disciplined employees. It clarified, and some say expanded, the union’s ability to argue that any penalty must be mitigated, if not totally overturned, if the … Continue reading
COUNCIL OF PRISON LOCALS WINS OT PAY FOR PRE-SHIFT WORK Most feds know that you have to be paid for any work they do, but not many recognize that the things they do before their shift to get ready for … Continue reading
FMLA LEAVE TO COVER VACATIONS– We recommend that you check out the blog page cited below. A judge has held that employees are entitled to FMLA leave if they are the care giver for a covered member of the family and that … Continue reading
“SHHH!” COMMAND COSTS MANAGEMENT OVER $12,000 A manager warned a maintenance employee to be careful who she told about how offended she was by finding a pornographic magazine in the restroom. The supervisor may have just been trying to get … Continue reading
DISCLOSURE OF FMLA MEDICAL INFO TO UNION REQUIRED In the right-hand column of the FEDSMILL.com page we track headlines off web sites of interests to federal employees. One of them deals with FMLA case law and it recently posted an … Continue reading