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EEOC MANDATES PERFORMANCE AWARD A supervisory Customs and Border Protection employee was not at work for more than half of the fiscal year due to cancer treatment and surgery. Nonetheless, he felt he was entitled to an annual performance award … Continue reading
CARTOONS & REASSIGNMENTS An Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee, the only African-American in her office, found that a co-worker had come into her office and drawn a monkey face on her whiteboard. When she asked management to do something about … Continue reading
WHAT SHOULD A GREAT MID-TERM NEGOTIATIONS TRAINING PROGRAM INCLUDE? The vast majority of negotiations in the federal sector involve an agency-proposed mid-term change, and in the overwhelming majority of those cases the union representatives are not full-time national staff, but … Continue reading
A LITTLE-KNOWN DEFENSE IN EMPLOYEE THEFT CASES Although MSPB said they were just drawing on prior court of appeals decisions, it sure looks like a new defense to us. At a minimum, they added enormous clarity to an idea that … Continue reading
LOOK WHO IS SUDDENLY CONCERNED ABOUT AFGE’S ICE EMPLOYEES After a career of doing her best to keep a knee on the necks of employees and their unions, suddenly FLRA’s Colleen Kiko-Duffy, a Trump disciple, is all torn up inside … Continue reading
FMLA, DISABILITIES, AND LIGHT DUTY An employee, Jessie Crutch, had a long-time reasonable accommodation of being allowed to rest his hip for a few minutes every few hours while working as a warehouse custodian. As the injury got worse and … Continue reading
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ASKING THE SPOUSE IS A D.O. DUE PROCESS NO-NO When a federal firefighter failed a random drug test, he claimed that he must have mistakenly taken one of his mother’s pills given that they live together. The agency decided not … Continue reading
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EIGHT YEARS OF BACK PAY & AN AGE DISCRIMINATION GUIDE MSPB just issued what it labelled a precedent-setting decision that will give a former OMB employee eight years of back pay and all the benefits that go along with it. … Continue reading
THIS POOR DHS BRANCH CHIEF MSPB just upheld the termination of a DHS Branch Chief for unacceptable performance under circumstances that a bargaining unit employee likely would have won. We say that because the agency did not rely on the … Continue reading
EEOC REMINDER ABOUT LEAVE AND REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS Given the increasing number of requests for reasonable accommodations, union reps need to remember the following EEOC precedent: “forcing an employee to take leave when another accommodation would permit an employee to continue … Continue reading