Browse Articles: LER
Chilling the Rancor: Suggestions for Federal Union Officials Likely to Produce Positive Results in Labor Relations
The author offers some suggestions to Federal union officials in developing productive relationships with Agency officials. Having served as a representative of both employees and management in his career, the author discusses barriers he has seen created by attitudes that appear widespread in the Federal union community.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Is a 342-Day Federal Employee Suspension Too Long?
A federal court concludes that a decision resulting in the 342 suspension of an employee in the Social Security Administration was arbitrary because it was based solely on a "time served" suspension without logical deliberation on the length of the suspension.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Crying Poverty Leads to Dismissal of Employee Complaint
An employee at the Department of Education said she could not afford a legal filing fee of $250. She avoided the filing fee based on her representation of not having any substantial assets. The judge was unhappy when, according to the court, she underestimated her assets by more than $562,000. Case dismissed.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Response to "Obama and NATCA: Friendly Skies or Fire from the Heavens"
NATCA President Patrick Forrey says that a recent article on the labor portion of the 2008 Democratic Party's platform obscures the issues "through the recalling of the most unfortunate incident in Federal labor-management relations history."
Posted: September 25, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Gender Change and the Federal Hiring Process
A male applicant selected for a job at the Library of Congress had a 25-year career with the Army Special Forces. When David met with the selecting official and explained he would be starting work as a woman, the job offer was rescinded. The case went to court on the issue of sex discrimination and sex stereotyping.
Posted: September 22, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Senate Holds Hearings on FLRA Nominees: Acting Committee Chair Thumps Bush Administration
Thomas Beck and Carol Pope's hearings for appointment to the FLRA were held on September 11. Amid some Bush bashing, hints on the Democrats future plans for Federal labor relations were provided by the only Senator present for the hearing.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
OPM Encourages Use of Referral Bonuses: Get a Friend to Apply for a Job with Uncle Sam and Make a Few Bucks
OPM is encouraging agencies to utilize their flexibilities to pay bonuses to current employees who get people to apply for government jobs. The author asks a few questions about the impact of this on labor relations and agency budgets.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Not Eligible to Retire? What Happens if You Create New Data for Your Retirement Application?
A federal engineer was going to be fired after giving false information. The agency agreed to let him retire. He then lied on his retirement application and was indicted. OPM terminated his retirement annuity as he did not meet the age requirement. A court finds the settlement agreement could not prohibit the agency from reporting misconduct to the appropriate authority for prosecution and he does not have a case.
Posted: September 15, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Supervisory/ Managerial Responsibilities and Merit System Principles
This former human resources director and experienced trainer of federal employees and supervisors says that merit system principles are often unknown to people who may be responsible for implementing them.
Posted: September 12, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Still Struggling with Writing Your NSPS Self Assessment?
NSPS allows employees to play an important role in their performance rating by writing and submitting a self assessment. Here is a short lesson on how to prepare one.
Posted: September 11, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
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