Author Archives: AdminUN
NFFE WINS BREAKTHROUGH TELEWORK ARBITRATION AWARD NFFE’s General Counsel’s shop has done all of us a favor with its recent arbitration victory. Like most unions since Trump’s anti-common sense decision to stamp out telework, it has had to file grievances … Continue reading
ARE THE DOUGLAS FACTORS GONE? Not yet, but Trump’s appointees are doing their best to punish federal employees just for being part of the government that came after him and the January 6th terrorists. Its latest revenge initiative, but hardly … Continue reading
TWO FEDS GET SHARE OF $1.7 MILLION FINE AGAINST CHEATING CONTRACTORS Private contractors are everywhere in government because a bundle of politicians believe that private sector firms can always do the work faster, better, and cheaper than federal employees. I … Continue reading
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WHEN CO-WORKERS HARASS EEO COMPLAINANTS An employee filed an EEO complaint alleging disparate treatment, which was found to be without merit. However, before the agency dismissed the complaint, the supervisors put out the word that they were going to begin … Continue reading
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MAGIC WORDS NOT REQUIRED What if you tell your supervisor that you are finding it very difficult to accomplish an assigned task because of a physical or mental problem and he does nothing? Then, soon thereafter you get an unacceptable … Continue reading
Posted in ADA/ADAAA, Disability, Reasonable Accommodations
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REMEMBER THIS REMEDY We like to highlight employee and union victories where an employer is not simply ordered to cease and desist. Frankly, that kind of verdict is near worthless because it does not compensate the employee or union for … Continue reading
AGENCY PIP DISCRIMINATORY; EMPLOYEE REINSTATED A deaf/Hard of Hearing employee could read lips in one-on-one conversations, but needed an accommodation to participate in group conversations. Consequently, his performance suffered and the agency put him on a PIP, which ended in … Continue reading
WHAT DID THIS UNION DO WRONG? Here are the facts. See if you can figure out two things the union did wrong. The agency had a practice of placing a guard at each of its strategically important locations around its … Continue reading