Government Employee Relations Report Index-Summary

GAO

See GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE (GAO)
– Reports

See specific subject matter or agencies

GARNISHMENT

– Pensions, U.S. may get benefits owed by La. Sheriff's fund to individuals who pled guilty, ERISA does not preempt MVRA (E.D. La.), 107

GASB

See GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD (GASB)

GAY EMPLOYEES

– Bias

See SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION

– Domestic partner issues

See DOMESTIC PARTNERS

GENDER DISCRIMINATION

– Harassment

See SEXUAL HARASSMENT

– Sex bias

See SEX DISCRIMINATION

GENDER VARIANCE DISCRIMINATION

– Del., executive order expanding bias protections for state workers and applicants issued, 945
– Employment Non-Discrimination Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2981, HR 3017, S 1584

– Equal protection, male Ga. legislative editor has equal protection claim for firing after presenting at work as woman (N.D. Ga.), 871
– Hiring, transsexual whose CRS job was rescinded after supervisor learned of sex change gets damages (D.D.C.), 516
– Kan., bill adding to list of banned biases introduced, 167
– Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individual, number of firms with policies protecting increased but steps needed to improve climate, report, 1097
– Nashville, protected classes for city and county jobs expanded to sexual orientation and gender identity, 1129
– Ohio, Akron, executive order barring bias signed, In Brief, 867
– Protections, 27 states protect but U.S. law does not ban, GAO report, 1153

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE (GAO)

– Reports

See specific subject matter or agencies

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA)

– Smoking, bulletin banning in federally owned and leased buildings and certain outdoor areas issued, 10

GENETIC INFORMATION

– GINA

See GENETIC INFORMATION NONDISCRIMINATION ACT (GINA)

GENETIC INFORMATION NONDISCRIMINATION ACT (GINA)

– EEOC, more staff and funding needed to handle expanding caseload, enforce new laws, Outlook, 179
– Employment provisions, proposed rule issued, 266; EEOC expects to issue final rule, semiannual regulatory agenda, 586; EEOC issues proposed rule inserting references into existing procedures for ADA and Title VII, 616; proposed final rule sent to OMB for review, In Brief, 969; DOL, SSA, and IRS release interim final rules, 1125; steps to handle using health risk assessments before effective date discussed, 1239

GEORGIA

– Case Notes, 954
– Cobb Cty., rejected applicant who failed to rebut reasons for turning down for promotion has no race bias claim (11th Cir.), 231
– DeKalb Cty.

– – Qualified immunity, workers properly denied protection from claims that they had plan to replace white managers with African Am. ones (11th Cir.), 973
– – Water and Sewer Dep't, sewer inspectors fired after telling supervisors about Clean Water Act violations have no whistleblower or free speech claims (11th Cir.), 649

– Furloughs

See FURLOUGHS

– Gender variance bias, male legislative editor has equal protection claim for firing after presenting at work as woman (N.D. Ga.), 871

GINA

See GENETIC INFORMATION NONDISCRIMINATION ACT (GINA)

GOOD FAITH BARGAINING

See BARGAINING DUTY

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE (GAO)

– Burrowing in, converting political appointees to career federal jobs permissible but Congress should monitor process, CRS report, 124
– Reports

See specific subject headings

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (AFGE)

– Appointments and personnel changes, Gage reelected president, In Brief, 994
– EPA, union objects to plan to appoint Deputy Administrator as acting Administrator, correction, 97; Jackson confirmed as administrator, 127
– Legislative agenda, priorities include Employee Free Choice Act, increased funding and staffing for federal agencies, and TSA bargaining rights, 159
– Local 607, no ULP in barring union representative from out-processing meeting after BOP worker firing (FLRA), 779
– Local 2741, union charges D.C. unlawfully reprogrammed funds to eliminate office and contract out services, 1027; union has no due process or pact impairment claims for RIFs (D.D.C.), 1290
– Local 3299, Univ. of Cal. service workers ratify pact, 129
– Outsourcing, union to challenge contracting out public works jobs, no GAO protest until Army briefing and SBA challenge resolution, 457; contract for public works functions improperly awarded due to improper calculation of cost savings, 1250

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (NAGE)

– Local R-12-35, civilians reorganized from Navy command unit no longer separate from workers in bargaining unit to which transferred (FLRA), 572

GOVERNMENT PLANS

See 403(b) PLANS

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE (GPO)

– Free speech, custodian fired for threatening to kill supervisor, threats to nurses not made during care not privileged (MSPB), 657

GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD (GASB)

– GASB 45

– – N.Y. governor creates task force on public retiree health benefits, key issue is impact, 284
– – Unfunded liabilities, state and local governments must decide how to address, issue brief, 1128

– Statements 43 and 45, comments sought on draft amendments for multiemployer postemployment benefits and Chapter 9 bankruptcy, 806

GOVERNMENTAL PLANS

– City multiemployer pension plan gets no withdrawal liability exemption because many contributing employers from private sector (D. R.I.), 321
– 403(b) plans

See 403(b) PLANS

GPO

See GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE (GPO)

GRANDPARENTS

– Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2132

GRANTS

– Labor-management cooperation, FMCS accepting applications for grants from groups seeking to establish and operate committees, In Brief, 835
– Race bias, black senior executive not recommended for monetary bonus has no claim where no adverse action (D.C. Cir.), 408

GRIEVANCES

– Arbitration

See ARBITRATION

GROOMING

See DRESS CODES AND GROOMING

GSA

See GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA)