Category Archives: EEO/Discrimination
IRS PROBATIONER’S REINSTATEMENT A LESSON FOR ALL STEWARD ALERT! Managers constantly tell probationary employees they have no appeal rights if terminated, but that is just not true. FEDSMILL.com is working on a longer article about probationary employee appeal rights, but here … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, Probation Period
Tagged Discrimination, EEOC, Probationary Employee, union
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UNIONS FOOLISH TO REFER EEO COMPLAINTS TO AGENCY EEO OFFICERS LEADER ALERT! Too many unions think that they should not use the grievance process to pursue employee complaints about civil rights discrimination. As a result, they refer employees with discrimination … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, Grievance/Arbitration
Tagged arbitration, EEO, federal, grievance, union
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JOHN (OPM) BERRY’S CONTEMPT FOR BILINGUAL EMPLOYEES OPM Director John Berry must be filled with contempt for bilingual federal employees. Or maybe the Obama appointee is just a hand puppet being worked by others with contempt for them. Or maybe … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, Membership Building
Tagged Allowance, Bilingual, John Berry, OPM, Stipend
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EEOC TO MANAGERS: “ZIP IT!—CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?” MEMBER ALERT! In October, FEDSMILL.com published an article entitled, “EEOC To Managers: Zip It!” It was about various laws that prohibit managers from discussing publicly what they know about an employee’s … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, Medical Issues
Tagged Disclose, Privacy, Rehabilitation Act, union
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HOW UNIONS GET UNIT MEMBERS PROMOTED MEMBER ALERT! Almost every time someone is promoted other applicants get passed over. Often, the passed over applicants feel they were just as qualified or even better qualified than the selectee. Sometimes they even … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination, Grievance/Arbitration, Promotion/Hiring
Tagged Discrimination, federal, grievance, Promotion, union
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IS “AGE HARASSMENT” ILLEGAL? MEMBER ALERT! Sexual harassment is a well-known and well-litigated matter. Mainstream media write about it often and most employers have policies prohibiting it. But how many have heard of “age harassment” or an age-hostile work environment? … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination
Tagged Age Harassment, Best Chevrolet, Hostile Environment, union
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WHO GETS THE DIRTY WORK? MEMBER ALERT! Virtually everything that comes out of the FLRA loudly broadcasts that management can assign any work it wants to an employee and there is little to nothing the union can do about that. … Continue reading
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR DISABLED COMMUTERS MEMBER ALERT! Disabled employees now have a little more reason to expect that their employer may be required to help them commute to and from work when their disability makes that very difficult or impossible. … Continue reading
Posted in EEO/Discrimination
Tagged Commuting, Disability, Reasonable Accommodation, Tinkelman, Undue Hardship, union
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EEOC PUNISHES SSA EMPLOYEE TESTS STEWARD ALERT! It is illegal for any employer to use tests of any kind (oral, written, behavioral) if they tend to discriminate against a class of protected employees under any of the Civil Rights acts, … Continue reading
$75,000+ FOR DENIAL OF PILGRIMAGE LEAVE MEMBER ALERT! The Justice Dept. just announced it settled a case where an employee had been denied leave to go on a religious pilgrimage.
Posted in EEO/Discrimination
Tagged Discrimination, Islamic, Pilgrimmage, Religious, Undue Hardship, union
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