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It remains legal for agencies to discriminate against federal employees based on sexual orientation. This was reiterated by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida,…
The implementation plans for the President's vision of Federal labor management relations are rolling in. Most tout their continuing commitment to getting along but exceedingly rare are commitments…
A Navy employee told to take a random drug test left before the test and created a complex tale to explain his actions during the multiple levels of…
In 2003, the Federal Labor Relations Authority found that the Transportation Security Administrator had the absolute right to decide whether a union could represent TSA employees. The author…
The FLRA conducted Focus Groups in Washington on revising its regulations. This article reports the discussion at one of these sessions and provides information on FLRA's decision to…
AFGE took the opportunity to of the National Council on Labor Management Relations to try to keep HR and LR staffs away from participating in prospective Agency Forums.…
AFGE President tells U.S. President, "Get the hell out of our way..." in the union's organizing efforts at Transportation Security Administration. As unions generally start putting proposals on…
FLRA has announced focus group meetings for the next two weeks to prepare for revising its arbitration regulations. The author strongly recommends that practitioners attend and speak up…
In reviewing what, on the surface, appears an innocuous change to the FLRA General Counsel's Regulations, the author suggests there may be more involved.
The Author provides a draft Agency proposal for an arbitration article to bring arbitration up to date. He's betting Agency representatives will endorse this proposal.