Browse Articles: LER
The FLRA's "Covered-By" Cover-Up (Part Two)
The author says that a test applied by the Federal Labor Relations Authority clashes with fundamental principles of collective bargaining.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
10 Reasons Supervisors Give for Not Trying to Resolve Employee Problems
The Author asks whether a fairly widely held belief is true i.e., that Federal management takes disciplinary action only if it has absolutely no choice and often not even then. Where does this idea come from and, if true, what should Agency leadership do about it, if anything?
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
The FLRA's "Covered-By" Cover-Up
The Federal Labor Relations Authority owes agencies and unions clear rules that are easy to apply. The author says that has not been done and provides an example of the torturous path the federal labor relations program sometimes follows.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Disparate Treatment, Federal Taxes and "Conduct Unbecoming of a Federal Employee"
A mailroom worker for SSA got caught up in a fraudulent income tax scheme apparently sponsored by a co-worker. While under investigation, the agency promoted the employee who now had access to a database of Social Security numbers. The employee was fired but a federal court sends the case back to the MSPB for a new decision.
Posted: November 10, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
The New Federal Labor Relations Authority: Ten Suggestions that Might Really Improve Federal Collective Bargaining
FLRA has a new website and, according to its Chairman, a new "season" based on "Revitalization, Reinvention, and Re-engagement". Her message is the keynote on the cosmetically altered site. Taking on the prior Authority (of which she was a member) claiming it's "performance, along with employee morale, had suffered" and sounding a lot like Al Gore, she wants to reinvent the FLRA but how she plans to do so is a bit hazy.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Privacy Act Against TSA for Missing Data Dismissed by Court
Four Transportation Security Administration employees were not able to convince a court that their agency violated the Privacy Act when an agency hard drive with personal information on some 100,000 TSA employees went missing.
Posted: November 3, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Implementing the New HR Changes: When Do These Benefits Become Effective?
Since the enhancement of some benefits for federal employees earlier this week, a number of readers have been asking questions on the implementation of these new benefits. While many questions will not be answered for some time, here is information from the Office of Personnel Management on the new benefits that will be helpful to some of our readers.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Expunging Personnel Records and Creating a Public Record Through Appeals
A federal employee reached a settlement with the Army under which he resigned and the agency would rescind the removal for cause from his personnel records. He filed another appeal, created a public record, and got a decision that the Army had done what it agreed to do.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Erroneous Assumptions
The role of federal employee unions in government is a continuing debate. With a new administration that is considerably more favorable to giving the unions more say in government operations, a debate on the proper role of unions is wide open. The author points out "erroneous assumptions" in an article we published earlier this week by a union official.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
The Complexities and Frustrations of the Federal Human Resources Process
A GS-12 Internal Revenue Service employee, unhappy over her performance rating and discipline taken against her for making false statements on her pre-hire background investigation questionnaire, was unsuccessful in making a case that the agency's actions amounted to unlawful retaliation for her discrimination complaint.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
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