MSPB Wants Big Changes: Agencies and Agency Representatives Beware!
The MSPB is proposing to change its regulations in “radical” ways.
Doings at FLRA: Practitioners Pay Attention
The FLRA has announced a series of Town Meetings that practitioners should consider attending. On a sad note, a Federal labor relations giant passes.
National Council’s Report to President on Labor Relations: Nuthin’ Much Happened, Let’s Do It Some More and Maybe Sumpthin’ Will
After nearly 2 ½ years of meetings, Agency arm twisting to establish pilots, pressure to identify metrics, and 177 pages of print, the long awaited report on labor relations was sent to the president. If you think GSA spent too much on a conference, the report proves that you can spend a ton and not even get an entertaining speaker or a dip in the hot tub in return.
Bargaining Ground Rules Can be Complicated
Whenever a new term agreement or contract is negotiated, the parties generally exchange ground rules. The author offers a set of ground rules for Agencies to consider offering when getting ready to negotiate a new contract.
FLRA Issues New e-Filing Regulations
In Friday’s (May 4, 2012) Federal Register, the Federal Labor Relations Authority announced that, beginning June 4, 2012, parties will be able to e-file in a number of proceedings before the Authority using the Authority’s e-Filing system.
Discipline and Firing in the Federal Service: What Can and Can’t be Done!
When Federal employees publicly act out, there’s generally a call for immediate action. As with most things Federal, it’s more complex than it should be. Over the last 100 years (almost exactly), Congress has passed numerous laws that complicate and make the accountability process difficult and time consuming.
Is MSPB Encouraging Firing Squads?
The author says that the MSPB is making the process for taking disciplinary and adverse action more complicated and legalistic.
D.C. Circuit Reverses FLRA Again
In a case involving FLRA’s appropriate arrangement theory, abrogation theory and its new regulations on arbitration appeals, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals dealt the agency a sharp rebuke saying that it had issued a contrary ruling to its own prior decision on the same facts in the same Agency involving the same issue.
FAA and Air Traffic Controllers Sign 2016 Agreement: A FedSmith Prediction Comes True
According to the CNN and others, FAA and NATCA signed an agreement to continue the current agreement until 2016 with a side agreement on pay.
FLRA Finds Air Traffic Controller Union Breached Labor Law But Allows Future Violations
The FLRA writes that changing its constitution to “punish” controllers who leave its bargaining unit and return, was an unfair labor practice retroactively but not “prospectively.” The unions’ action was to “punish unit members who escaped the unconscionable terms and conditions unilaterally imposed by the FAA . . . by going to work for FAA management.”
