Cabaniss Quits FLRA: Remaining Member Gets Big Bucks to Do Little or Nothing
Dale Cabaniss, Chairman of the FLRA, has resigned. This leaves one person on the 3-member Authority which cannot issue decisions without a second member.
Can I Join This Union?
The author was researching an issue using Google and came upon a union website that had the best advice for representatives he’d ever seen. Judge for yourself.
Bargaining Impact and Implementation: Get the Agreement Right
The author has written extensively on FedSmith about the “ins and outs” of bargaining on the impact and implementation(I and I) of agency management decisions. I and I bargaining occurs with great frequency in the Federal sector and generally results in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the agency and the union. This article covers critical points the agency should consider in putting together an MOU.
The Masters of Contention
The author responds to an article published last week in FedSmith calling for an end to the FLRA and calling for some drastic changes in Federal labor relations. This author reaches a different conclusion than that of the original article.
Getting a Handle on Leave: 15 Things Every Federal Manager Can Do
Over 75% of disciplinary and adverse action cases in the Federal service involve attendance related issues. If a supervisor or manager is going to deal with an employee problem, it is almost always going to have an attendance component. This article discusses what you can do to prepare yourself to resolve these problems.
Deciding an Adverse Action: What the Manager Must Consider
In this final article in a three part series, the author explores the thought processes and considerations an Agency Deciding Official must use to render a decision and have it sustained on appeal. This framework is drawn from the law as evolved by the Merit Systems Protection Board since it came into existence in 1979.
Handling an Adverse Action Reply Meeting: A Systematic Approach for Deciding Officials
This article deals with the preparation for and conduct of an adverse action reply meeting.
Deciding an Adverse Action: The Process and the Proposal
Deciding whether to take an adverse action is one of the more difficult tasks a Federal manager may perform.
The Politics (and Money) of Federal Union “Official Time”
In another dispute involving the union’s use of official time, FLRA backed off a stance taken in previous decision, reminding all of us again how important union institutional issues are to Federal unions and their friends among the “neutrals”. The author suggests that employee working conditions’ improvements take a back seat to union institutional issues again and that FLRA’s reversal is part of the politics of labor relations and clearly not part of the the law.
Organizing a Disciplinary or Adverse Action Case
Organizing and structuring discipline and adverse action cases effectively is valuable for many reasons. First and foremost, good organization will help develop the basis for an action and whether or not the Agency should go forward. This article is about the nuts and bolts of putting a case together.
