Category Archives: Telework
REASSIGNMENT RIGHTS TO TELEWORK-APPROVED JOBS If an agency has terminated your right to telework, do you have the right to be reassigned to a job that does permit telework?
BIG MONEY FOR TELEWORK GRIEVANTS? We have reminded readers several times that when they grieve telework denials they should ask to be reimbursed for the mileage they racked up coming to the office when they should have been allowed to … Continue reading
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THE COMPLETE LIST OF TELEWORK REMEDIES Hardly a week goes by without a union reporting a new arbitration decision finding the Trump Administration’s termination of telework agreements and practices illegal. While that is great, union’s need to insist on all … Continue reading
NFFE WINS BREAKTHROUGH TELEWORK ARBITRATION AWARD NFFE’s General Counsel’s shop has done all of us a favor with its recent arbitration victory. Like most unions since Trump’s anti-common sense decision to stamp out telework, it has had to file grievances … Continue reading
AFGE LED THE WAY ON TELEWORK TERMINATION REMEDIES Last week NTEU announced it had just won several arbitrations overturning the nutty White House “vengeance-against-feds” decision to unilaterally terminate telework programs throughout government. Great legal work. In assume other unions are … 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.” Hew … Continue reading
YOU CAN KEEP TELEWORK IF YOU HAVE A COMPELLING REASON YUP! There is a way to wiggle out from under the Trump Administration efforts to punish federal employees for not voting for them. FEDWEEK just published a story you should … Continue reading
CONGRATS TO AFGE LEADERS AT SSA ON TELEWORK MANEUVER They just signed a deal with SSA management to keep telework in place for six more years. While that is not fool-proof protection against Shadow President Musk’s ranting about forcing all … Continue reading
DOES THIS FED GET A FULL-TIME TELEWORK FOR PTSD? The employee was a GS-11 Claims Specialist with SSA working in an office alongside 15 other GS-11 Claims Specialists and two GS-12’s. He was also a combat vet diagnosed with PTSD … Continue reading
IF YOU ARE GRIEVING THE LOSS OF TELEWORK… think about the remedy you are requesting. Whether citing a ULP violation for a failure to bargain to impasse before implementing telework reductions or some contract violation, the simple remedy is that … Continue reading