NLRB Guilty of an Unfair Labor Practice Says FLRA: Eating Crow Ain’t No Fun, So Will the Board Appeal?

In a possible historic clash of the Counsels General, the Authority finds NLRB guilty of an Unfair Labor Practice for, mostly, refusing to bargain with a union representing a unit the Board says violates its enabling legislation. The author asks whether this will develop into a major court case or go away in a union-friendly Obama Administration.

Sizing Up Pay-For-Performance In The Next Administration

There is no perfect compensation system. If the Obama administration and the Democratic congress want to extend pay-for-performance experiments to the rest of government, they would do well to consider several factors – some of which may be overlooked by good-government think tanks, high-price consultants, and agency human resources officers. Here are some of the issues that need to be addressed.