FLRA, RETIREES & OTHER FORMER EMPLOYEES
Can the FLRA help retired or other former employees when an agency or a union interferes with that person’s current or potential employment? For example, suppose a federal agency negotiated a settlement with an employee that in lieu of termination she could resign with a clean record so long as she never applied for a bargaining unit position anywhere in that agency’s federal department. Or imagine if a union, in lieu of disciplining and potentially prosecuting a local officer for theft let him resign the agency so long as he never worked in the future in an agency that union represented. What could the FLRA do? Continue reading