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– Conversion into cash, mass transit agency not required to not include in regular rate but stipends for nonuse of sick leave must be included, DOL opinion letter, 375
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– Case Notes, 26
– Discipline, issuance without bargaining of guidelines that change working conditions unlawful ULP (Vt.), 321
– Layoffs, 600 more jobs must be cut to help balance 2010 budget, governor tells lawmakers, 130
– Case Notes, 26
– Disabled, VA trying to hike number in workforce, Peake announces, 34 – Federal agencies, ensuring that military feel welcome among short term goals for new OPM director, 637; OPM nominee Griffin stresses importance of ensuring job opportunities, confirmation hearing, 828 – Final order, MSPB remand of preference claim to field office may not be reviewed until adjudication of whether applicant improperly denied SSA job (Fed. Cir.), 947; preference-eligible may pursue claim that SSA used internship program to deny him other jobs (MSPB), 1010 – IRS, Comm'r says agency has met goals for FY2008, on track to meet in FY2009, In Brief, 459 – Mandatory Veteran Specialist Training Act
– – Age bias, agencies must waive maximum entry age requirement where not essential to performance, OPM memo, 1020
– – Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP), veteran improperly passed over where exception to competitive exam process not sought (Fed. Cir.), 15 – – USERRA
– Age and race bias, nurse has no claim for delay in permanent assignment to retaliate for EEOC activity (3d Cir.), 1286
– Bay Pines Health Care Sys., doctors get damages for retaliation and hostile environment based on prior sex and religious bias charges (M.D. Fla.), 1261 – Beaumont Army Med. Ctr., unsuccessful applicant for joint residency program failed to prove veterans' preference applied (Fed. Cir.), 531 – Budget, 2 year cycle would provide more predictable funding for hiring, update technology, AFGE officials urge restoring bargaining rights, 159 – Case Notes, 954 – Disability bias, improper standard for evaluating prima facie case used to dismiss claim, VA's nondiscriminatory reasons requires fuller analysis of evidence (10th Cir.), 104 – Disabled veterans, hiking number with service-connected injuries in workforce, particularly recent wars, sought, Peake announces, 34 – Headstone setting, designated employee agent has no claim for decision to contract out where caretakers' jobs not affected (GAO), 698 – Productivity, disparity between Houston office standard and other offices did not make invalid, lowering after demotion for failure to meet did not show unreasonability (Fed. Cir.), 564 – Race bias, nurse demoted for poor supervision and failure to address problems has no hostile environment, harassment, or retaliation claims (7th Cir.), 1037 – Removal, MSPB must decide whether agency complied with accord requiring elimination of all references to removal (Fed. Cir., en banc), 472 – Retaliation
– – Extension or permanent job denial after bias charge, temporary laundry worker may pursue claim (3d Cir.), 378
– – Nursing assistant who got damages after statement about patient abuse and sexual harassment may seek de novo review of damages award (5th Cir.), 1006 – Tenn. Valley Healthcare Sys., nurse practitioners have no pay equity claim, EPA does not address predominately single sex occupations (Fed. Cl.), 202 – USERRA, nursing assistant denied promotions failed to prove veteran status affected (Fed. Cir., In Brief), 1294 – Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment, program improved by collaborations and more staff but would benefit from strategic approach, GAO report, 160
– Veterans' preferences, Army disregarded rights of applicant for civilian Army job whose military documents were disregarded to show experience (Fed. Cir.), 1034
– Shortage, safety and health safeguards inadequate, workforce assessments lacking, GAO reports, 243; potential for public safety crisis, Senate panel told, 278
– Altercation with subordinate, Conn. supervisory engineer required to have physical exam after complaints about suspension has free speech claim (2d Cir.), 1070
– Assault
– – Duty to defend, Md. board of education must defend vice principal in claim by student for showing knife in office despite coverage denial (Md.), 596
– – Retaliation, suit by air traffic controller dismissed where unable to identify court dismissing first case and no basis to impute supervisor misconduct to agency (6th Cir.), 468 – – Workplace, Cal. city parks director with cognitive disability after brain injury has ADA claim for accommodation denial but firing for performance not pretext (N.D. Cal.), 1005 – Disability bias, USPS technician who threatened instructors at training center failed to show barring from further training was disability bias (3d Cir.), 870 – Inmates, BOP does not support supplying correctional officers with nonlethal weapons to protect selves, House testimony, 862 – National origin and race bias, Bahamian Fla. corrections worker failed to show bias in firing for threats against supervisor, hearsay exception inapplicable (11th Cir.), 562 – OSHA, agency will use general duty clause to cite employers for workplace hazards, Barab says, 558 – Personnel files, Army data specialist removed after threats has no claim for order barring from premises after accord (Fed. Cir.), 1285 – Privilege, GPO supervisor fired for threatening to kill supervisor has no claim, threats to nurses not made during care not protected (MSPB), 657 – Sexual assault, Cal. school secretary who quit after chief facilities officer harassment may get documents produced for outside counsel investigation (Cal. Ct. App.), 52 – Termination of IRS supervisor involved in violent altercation affirmed (Fed. Cir.), In Brief, 324 – Workplace bullying, more states considering laws requiring monitoring workplaces to address, Analysis, 116; more common and prevalent than harassment, becoming important HR issue surfacing in courts and legislatures, Analysis, 1043
– Allegheny Cty., no malicious prosecution in indicting worker who used monitoring system to spy on co-workers (W.D. Va.), In Brief, 1042
– Buchanan Cty., Social Servs. Dep't director may not be chosen for political affiliation but officials who selected did not know it was unconstitutional (4th Cir.), 739 – Case Notes, 26 – Layoffs, 593 jobs will be cut in FY budget reduction plan, 1026 – Mental Health Dep't, state worker barred from bring bias claim where not raised in state proceeding for firing for sexual harassment (E.D. Va.), 978 – Sexual harassment, university business manager fired for asking student-worker to pose for calendar failed to assert proper basis for judicial review (Va.), 536 – Wythe Cty. Cmty. Hosp., early retirees should have been provided with COBRA notice even though retirement package had other health benefits (W.D. Va.), 47
– Case Notes, 954
– Emergency services, EMTs working for county may work without pay for crew county partially funds but is separate entity, DOL opinion letter, 101
– Firefighters, district proposing stipend to cover expenses and pay fee failed to show fee nominal and permissible under DOL rules, opinion letter, 101 – Reserve pay, hours that police victim assistant specialist served as reserve officer must be counted where doing special assignments and getting more pay, DOL opinon letter, 100 – Sexual harassment, volunteer reserve officer has no Title VII claim where not an employee (N.D. Ind.), 1162 Contact the Webmaster at webmaster@bna.com Copyright © The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
