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The price paid for the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978's merit pay, senior executive service and performance based removals was Federal employee labor relations being controlled by…
What will happen in federal labor and employee relations in 2010? Here are a few predictions from an expert in the field.
It's that time of year and labor and employee relations in 2009 did not disappoint the observer of silly, scary or simply crazy events. As we look at…
The biggest single flaw, in an astonishingly flawed system, is that injured Federal workers face a "closed loop" system in which they can never appeal an adverse decision…
Third-parties seem increasingly willing to enforce the rights of veterans. Here are several cases agencies need to note.
Federal Agencies have lots to do in a short time to meet the requirements of the new Executive Order creating labor-management forums. The author's wife, a retired Federal…
The President issued an Executive Order that calls for a expanding negotiations between Agencies and their unions.
The Executive Order on federal labor relations issued on December 9, 2009.
After 30 years under the Federal labor law, the FLRA has ruled for the first time that personnel specialists are in a bargaining unit as their work is…
A practitioner asks, what should go into an adverse action letter, more or less? The author provides his take on approaching the development of adverse actions from an…