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WHY DOESN’T FSIP GET IT ABOUT DECISION FALLOUT? One of our continuing beefs with the Panel is that it regularly fails to consider the long-term fallout of its decisions. For example, it recently rejected a union proposal that assignments to … Continue reading
HOW TO PROVE DISCRIMINATORY PRETEXT Once the agency puts forth its explanation for why it made the decision the employee considered discriminatory, e.g., a promotion, a reassignment, a suspension, etc., the employee is expected to prove that the explanation is … Continue reading
WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO THIS OVERTIME PROBLEM? Practitioners on both side of the table come up against the following facts. The agency wants to keep overtime costs down. So, it decides to have its first line supervisors start doing … Continue reading
EEOC REAFFIRMS RIGHT TO ACCOMMODATION REASSIGNMENTS It seems like every day we check this Administration has taken away one employee right after another. So it was comforting to see the new EEOC decision reconfirming a disabled employee’s reasonable accommodation right … Continue reading
DOES FSIP’S OFFICIAL TIME ORDER VIOLATE THE LAW? FLRA has ruled a number of FSIP decisions illegal and unenforceable. Usually, it is because the Panel-imposed language violates management 7106(a) rights. (See Note 1 below). But that is not the only example of … Continue reading
LABOR RELATIONS AND GUN CONTROL Does an agency have the right to decide when its law enforcement personnel can carry their weapons while off duty? For example, can the Dept. of Army deny its law enforcement personnel who are armed … Continue reading
PRESIDENT PUNISHES NONUNION EMPLOYEES One of the great benefits that unionized federal employees have is that they can appeal any disciplinary action to a neutral arbitrator–from a written reprimand to a removal. In addition, unionized employees can get a decision … Continue reading
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WHEN IS UNILATERAL IMPLEMENTATION LEGAL? If you are a union rep and think the only time an agency can unilaterally implement a mid-term change is when there is an emergency, you are woefully unprepared to lead a bargaining team and … Continue reading
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