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January 21, 2021 | NAAE Case Study “Baseless Removal”

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BEHIND BASELESS REMOVAL PENALTY? NAAE represents a Black technician in her quest to quash her supervisor’s proposal to terminate her employment with PPQ based upon cooked-up evidence of GOV misuse and submission of inaccurate records. This proposed discipline comes from her White male supervisor who spent days spying on her and, without her …

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January 14, 2021 | NAAE Case Study “One and Done”

PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE SAVES SOME FROM ONE-AND-DONE POLICY. During 2020, NAAE in its representative capacity has, on several occasions, had to confront the Agency’s zero-tolerance policy for employees discovered misusing their government computers or cell phones, such as for viewing porn, streaming, or gambling. In every instance, the Agency imposed the maximum allowable penalty, removal from …

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January 12, 2021 | NAAE Case Study “Just Walk to the Doctor’s”

Attention Bargaining Unit Members, as part of an ongoing series, NAAE is publishing case studies involving some of the progress made over the past few years. Stay tuned, there’s more to come… BROKEN FOOT? NO PROBLEM — JUST WALK TO THE DOCTOR’S. NAAE represents a PPQ Officer grieving an Agency decision to suspend him for …

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BREAKING: Court Expands Union’s Right To Negotiate

In a rare set-back for the Trump-controlled Federal Labor Relations Authority, a federal court recently overturned a major FLRA decision that had significantly narrowed the scope of what federal agencies must negotiate with unions. Congress by statute requires agencies to bargain with federal unions such as NAAE only over changes in “conditions of employment.” FLRA …

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