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FDIC CLOBBERED FOR LACKING CREDIBILITY FDIC management has been ordered to rehire a former employee retroactively to late 2000. KAAAA-POW for management and KAH-CHING for the employee. EEOC found that management repeatedly lacked credibility when it tried to explain why … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, Information, Resignations
Tagged Constructive discharge, Credibility, EEOC, FDIC, ROI
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SF-1187 DOLLAR INCENTIVE CAMPAIGNS How much should national union leaders offer for each new SF-1187? NTEU has offered $25.00 incentives, AFGE $50.00, and NFFE $100.00. What is the right amount?
Posted in Membership Building, Union Administration
Tagged AFGE, Incentives, membership, NFFE, NTEU, Sf-1187, Unions
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WHO ARE THE SIMILARLY-SITUATED? “All things being equal, if an employer takes an action against one employee in a protected class but not another outside that class, one can infer discrimination. The ‘similarly situated’ prong establishes whether all things are … Continue reading
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Tagged "Prima facie", Comparable, Comparator, Discrimination, Similarly, Situated
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MSPB BLAMES QUICKHIRE If you have worked with any of the software packages agencies use to hire and promote applicants, you know that they have shortcomings and flaws. All too often agencies have decided that is just a price employees … Continue reading
WE’RE HOOKING UP (FMLA and Disability Retirement) Look over to the right side of the page and you will find we have added two new links that will help you find answers quickly for your members.
GETTING MORE THAN 12 WEEKS OF FMLA LEAVE Despite the best efforts of the American education system to skip over the laws that will control the next 50 years of most students’ lives, generally high school graduates know that they … Continue reading
DAMAGE TO EMPLOYEE’S PROFESSIONAL REPUTATION COSTS AGENCY $4,000 EEOC just issued another decision awarding an employee $4,000 in damages for the “embarrassment, frustration, social isolation, and injury to his professional reputation” he suffered when his manager confronted him about his … Continue reading