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While the Federal Labor Relations Authority is tiny when compared with most Executive Branch employers, it must present its own unique challenges to management. In my 36 years…
A police officer who lied to investigators about using a government vehicle to go to a Denny's restaurant while on duty, was issued notice of removal, settled for…
You can make a health care choice today that minimizes the effect of the President’s proposed freeze of your federal employee salary.
The author offers comments by a number of agency and union members of the National Council on Federal Labor Management Relations but finds no mention of the pre-decisional…
This is the CRS summary of HR 1722 which as become the "Telework Enhancement Act of 2010"
2010 would require each agency to establish a policy under which employees may be authorized to telework to the maximum extent possible without diminishing employee performance or agency…
In what the author calls perhaps the wackiest decision in the history of Federal labor relations, the FLRA decides to allow the election of a union to represent…
The Federal Labor Relations Authority conducted training on Federal sector arbitration last month. If you missed it and want copies of the slides and handouts, the Author provides…
The new employee probationary period is "the most elegantly simple program we have in Human Resources." Unlike many other areas of human resources the author has encountered, it…
The author requested and received FLRA’s training materials used to train participants in pilot programs in which parties will bargain agency permissive topics. These pilots dramatically expand union…