Category Archives: EEO/Discrimination
NTEU REELS IN $2.61 MILLION FOR FDIC DISCRIMINATION VICTIMS Long-time FEDSMILL readers might remember our posting entitled, “FDIC Flips, Flops, Flaps, & Flails” in which we described how mightily FDIC management was struggling to get off the hook of a … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, EEO/Remedies
Tagged Age discrimination, Race Discrimination
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“SHHH!” COMMAND COSTS MANAGEMENT OVER $12,000 A manager warned a maintenance employee to be careful who she told about how offended she was by finding a pornographic magazine in the restroom. The supervisor may have just been trying to get … Continue reading
EEOC ON DOMESTIC/DATING ABUSE, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND STALKING The EEOC recently went on record indicating its willingness to charge employers with discrimination if they take personnel actions against employees involved in any of these circumstances. Every union rep should look … Continue reading
ABSOLUTELY DESPICABLE This is not about the federal sector, but it is a story about employee relations and employment law that should be told and retold as often as possible. EEOC just announced that it caught a private sector employer, … Continue reading
WHY 17,000 EEOC CHARGES MATTER TO UNION LEADERS One of organized labor’s biggest mistakes was to turn over to the government and private attorneys enforcement of the over 30 labor laws unions worked so hard to push through Congress. As … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, Grievance/Arbitration, Union Administration
Tagged Attorneys, EEOC
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WHAT IS THAT SMELL? That can be not just an idle question, but also the first sign that employees need union help. There is a near endless source of scents in modern offices, e.g., perfumes, paint, flooring, ink, dust, furniture … Continue reading
EEO INVESTIGATIONS ARE FORMAL DISCUSSIONS Unions reps have a right to be invited to an EEO investigator’s interview of unit employees. FLRA considers these interviews, even if done one person at a time, to be formal discussions solong as the … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, Formal Discussions, ULPs
Tagged Investigator interview
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SSA SUPERVISORS CLUELESS AGAIN LR specialists have so concentrated power in their hands that employees and union reps rarely can have a substantive discussion with their managers about fixing problems promptly. There may be some agency benefits from this approach, … Continue reading
BILINGUALISM AS A MANAGEMENT WEAPON Bilingualism is a highly valued skill in our diverse society, but some managers over at the Social Security Administration have found a new use for it, namely as a weapon to retaliate against an employee. This … Continue reading
WHAT IS “ASSOCIATIONAL” DISCRIMINATION? The courts are recognizing a new form of illegal discrimination, which means that union reps should be notified and trained how to prove it exists. In short, it involves an employee being discriminated against because of … Continue reading