Several items of interest are discussed this week by Peter Broida:
- Knuckles v. Dept. or Army, CB7121140025V1 (NP 5/27/2015) (whether a 3rd level grievance decision constitutes a final grievance determination for purposes of Board review);
- Grant v. Dept. of Treasury, DC0752140237I1 (NP 5/27/2015) (use of unofficially-prepared hearing transcripts on petitions for review);
- Dept. of Army, Corps of Engineers and AFGE, 68 FLRA No. 104 (5/27/2015) (the impact of agency factual misstatements to employees during a union election campaign);
- Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 12 and Dept. of Navy, 68 FLRA No. 98 (5/19/2015) (review of physical agility testing program for civilian police and guards under the Rehabilitation Act);
- Strickland v. Dept. of Navy, AT0752137164I1 (NP 5/20/2015) (due process in the availability of reply rights to an adverse action proposal);
- DHUD and AFGE Local 222, 68 FLRA No. 100 (5/22/2015) (comments in dissent by Member Pizzella concerning FLRA practice of remanding cases to the same arbitrators whose decisions are reviewed through exceptions);
- Complainant v. Lew, Dept. of Treasury, EEOC OFO 0120122603 (5/8/2015) (agency violated Title VII by disciplining an employee for internal protests of EEO complaints within the agency chain of command rather than exclusively through the EEOC process).
