Author Archives: AdminUN
WHAT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN WHEN YOU CALL IN SICK I’ll bet that what happened in this recent case is very, very common. An employee, Jade, called in to say she needed to be hospitalized due to stomach pains and needed … Continue reading
GREAT PODCAST ABOUT “ASSOCIATIONAL DISCRIMINATION” Got 15 minutes? If so, we suggest you checkout this podcast about a kind of discrimination that most of us never hear about. It will help you when union members suffer any of a very wide … Continue reading
MSPB CLARIFIES WHEN AN AGENCY CAN TERMINATE FOR LEAVE ABUSE A GS-14 Supervisory Administrative Specialist at the SBA sustained a compensable injury requiring surgery and leave. When she was cleared by her doctor to return to work, she requested a … Continue reading
OUTSTANDING!!! NFFE ACHIEVES 14% NET GROWTH IN 2023 We at FEDSMILL have always believed that the most important measures of a union are its membership stats. If people are joining, then the union is obviously providing them the value they … Continue reading
WHAT IS ADEQUATE NOTICE OF CRIMINAL IMMUNITY? The U. S Constitution permits a federal employees not to answer official questions put to them in any investigation proceeding, civil or criminal, formal or informal, when the answers might incriminate them in … Continue reading
WHAT IRS NOW KNOWS ABOUT “MISGENDERING” AND “DEADNAMING” A GS-8 Contact Representative from Chamblee, Georgia just schooled the IRS on what these terms mean and why it is illegal to engage in them. “Deadnaming” is the practice of …
THE OH SO ILLEGAL LOVE(?) LETTER As EEOC tells it, a supervisor sent one of his employees female the following email: “Is this a Micro-aggression, me and Mikey were trying to decide? [m]an, you got a big b**ty for a … Continue reading
RETURNING TO A WORKABLE 7116(d) FORUM SELECTION ANALYSIS Among the precedents the two Trump FLRA appointees destroyed was the Authority’s decades-long approach to objectively deciding whether a union can take “two bites at the apple.” This post is about how … Continue reading
GOOD NEWS ABOUT DOUGLAS FACTORS 6 & 10 Homeland Security fired a Deportation Officer because he traveled home from an assignment in Chile a day earlier than scheduled and spent the day with his family. DHS also cited the fact … Continue reading