Category Archives: Awards
WHEN PERFORMANCE AWARDS ARE DISCRETIONARY What’s a union to do when management distributes cash performance awards as it sees fit without any negotiated formal criteria? A lot, even if the FSIP said the agency could do it that way. The … Continue reading
POPA’S AWARD AGREEMENT ASTONISHING The Patent Office Professional Association is one of our favorite unions if for no other reason than it knows how to protect benefits once negotiated. It wrote the book on how a union can dig its heals … Continue reading
“IT’S PART OF YOUR JOB” SUGGESTION AWARD GRIEVANCE Grievances over suggestion awards are not new. The two most common deal with disputes over the amount of money paid the employee for an adopted suggestion and whether an employee’s suggestion was … Continue reading
SEPARATE BUT EQUAL PERFORMANCE AWARD SYSTEMS In a country that knows more than a little bit about the vicious fallacy of a “separate but equal” approach to treating people, one would think there would be little tolerance for it in … Continue reading
VULTURES ARE CIRCLING YOUR SALARY SYSTEM With a new Presidential term about to begin, the scavengers are circling Washington, D.C. hoping to feast grandly at the expense of the federal treasury and federal employees. In a synchronized attack worthy of … Continue reading
SPOTTING DISCRIMINATION VIOLATIONS & GRIEVANCES Every time a member comes to the union for help with some personnel action, the union rep should not only look for violations of the contract, regulations, and past practice, but also whether management’s action … Continue reading
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