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THE CARE AND FEEDING OF ARBITRATORS If you understand how hard it is to keep goldfish thriving, then you know something about sustaining arbitrators. They need constant care and attention throughout a case. Ignore one tiny detail and your case … Continue reading
STRIKING THE DELICATE BALANCE: RELIGION AND PRONOUNS Unions are not going to be able to sit back and watch employers struggle with this issue. Sooner or later an LGBTQ+ member is going to wander into the union office asking for … Continue reading
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO CONDUCT JOB INTERVIEWS Like it or not, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tsunami is only slightly off-shore and certain to roar through our lives shortly sweeping away so many of our traditions. One of them is the job … Continue reading
UNIONS ARE MISSING OUT ON INTERIM TERMINATION RELIEF When a union takes an employee’s removal case to arbitration and wins, the agency typically will not reinstate the employee if it decides to file an appeal with the Federal Circuit court. … Continue reading
YODA, KING SOLOMON & ARBITRATORS In my experience, most arbitrators see themselves as the fruit of a mythical, time-travel-assisted coupling of Yoda and the infamous baby-splitting King Solomon. Their wisdom and power are, therefore, boundless. Yet, they do not seem … Continue reading
WHEN DINOSAURS DECIDE FULL-TIME TELEWORK REQUESTS With our apologies to the dinosaur community, we have to say we immediately thought of the stereotypical behemoths when we read about an agency official who decided that “telework was not an entitlement” and … Continue reading
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WHITE HOUSE LISTS CHANGES IT’S SEEKING IN FEDERAL EMPLOYEE BENEFITS Fedweek.com posted a very readable piece about how the Biden White House wants to improve federal employee benefits. Thought you might be interested. Click here to leap to their article.
AGENCY’S PRE-SELECTION SCAMMERS SNARED I am sure union reps have seen these same facts hundreds of times in their own agencies. Management announced a promotion opportunity, and after it passed over the person EEOC ultimately declared to be “vastly superior” … Continue reading
“INTERIM RELIEF” MEANS MONEY A VA employee was fired from his job, appealed to MSPB, and the Administrative Judge ordered that he be granted “interim relief.” That is what the Board calls it when the agency is ordered to put … Continue reading
SHOULD I RUN FOR NATIONAL UNION PRESIDENT? The current president of one of the major federal employee unions has just announced he is not going to run for another term. That has probably set off a firestorm of interest among … Continue reading