1. Preventing management from requiring attendance at after hours parent teacher organization meetings. Fort Knox, 19 F 103 [NN]
2. Limiting the assignment of employees to teaching positions or the assignments of teaching duties to two years to employees. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 21 F 104 [NN]
3. Giving teachers under a rating system an additional period each day for planning. Fort Knox Dependents Schools, 22 F 88 [NN]
4. Permitting teachers to perform other duties during the art instruction period. Fort Knox Dependents Schools, 22 F 88 [NN]
5. Providing for the establishment of a random list to be used in assigning teachers as bus chaperons. Fort Knox Dependents Schools, 25 F 95 [NN]
6. Teachers be excused as soon as possible after dismissing students. Ft. Bragg Schools, 28 F 66 [NN]
7. Limiting the assignment of instructional duties on the specified days to one- half of the duty day. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 26 [NN]
8. Seeking to specify amount of duty time to preparation for classroom responsibilities. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 49 [NN]
9. Establishing a minimum number of instructional days and compensating for instructional days beyond that minimum. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 49 [NN]
10. Seeking to establish a procedure by which management can consider employee input at the school level on the order of events or periods in scheduling the school day. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 49 [N]
11. Additional period assignments shall not be in a subject area beyond an employee's scheduled subjects prior to a change. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 49 [NN]
12. Seeking to prescribing the amount of duty time (paid time) to be devoted to preparation time. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 49 [NN]
13. Prohibiting assigning a teacher to teach any subject area beyond those which she or he was already scheduled to teach before the assignment of the additional 30-minute period. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 56 (NN]. Reversed and remanded in Overseas Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 876 F.2d 960 (D.C. Circuit, 1989).
14. Agency to make every reasonable effort to set aside part of the instructional day as preparation time. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 56 [NN]. Reversed and remanded in Overseas Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 876 F.2d 960 (D.C. Circuit, 1989).
15. Management to make every reasonable effort to provide alternative means-- use of volunteers, additional funding, use of non-unit employees--other than the use of unit employees to perform the task of monitoring students. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 56 [NN]
16. Eliminating a required 30-minute period at the end of the instructional day. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 56 [NN]
17. Agency to make every reasonable effort to provide substitutes for absent teachers. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 56 [NN]
18. Agency to make every reasonable effort to relieve unit employees of non- instructional duties. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 56 [NN]
19. Agency to make every reasonable effort to provide an aide to assist each unit employee impacted by the agency's requirement that the instructional day be lengthened by a 30 -minute period. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 56 [NN]
20. Agency to make every reasonable effort to provide administrative assistance to unit employees required to administer semester examinations. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 56 [NN]
21. School principals to perform certain tasks. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
22. Agency to recruit a certain number of teachers to serve as substitute teachers when regular teachers are absent. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
23. Agency to make an effort to use the same substitute teacher each time a regular teacher is absent. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
24. Agency to release all unit employees who decide to attend briefings. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
25. Preventing the agency from requiring that teachers utilize a sign in/sign out register in order to accomplish the agency's objective of assuring that the children in the classrooms are being supervised. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [N]
26. Teacher rather than the agency, to translate the particular teacher's grading system into that of the agency. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [N]
27. Agency to make every effort, if requested by the teacher, to assign aides for each class with more than 25 students, to assign each special education class with more than 8 students and to assign each kindergarten class with more than 20 students. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
28. Subjecting planning schedules for affected employees to discussion rather than negotiations through the forum provided by the Joint Association Employer Cooperation. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [N]
29. Placing limitations on management's right to prescribe either a teacher's daily work schedule and/or the number of different subjects to be assign to a particular teacher. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
30. Agency to make every effort to avoid assigning certain nonprofessional duties to teachers. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
31. Employees to be in a paid status when preparing certain required reports. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [N]
32. The time and dates of performing the task of preparing certain required reports will be subject to certain committee procedures in the collective bargaining agreement. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [N]
33. Preventing the agency from changing an agency regulation to require certification in more than one position category. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
34. Allowing employee control of what is taught in the classroom and permitting employee determinations regarding course content and classroom discussion. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
35. Use of substitutes is appropriate and that substituting duties are not considered part of the employee's normal duties. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
36. Agency to exhaust all other reasonable alternatives before assigning substitute duties to unit employees. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 61 [NN]
37. As a matter of management policy, that a substitute be used in the absence of the regular classroom teacher and designates the person who will carry out certain responsibilities when the employees who are regularly assigned cannot perform them. Fort Rucker, 29 F 119 [NN]
38. Limiting number of school days to 180, even if instructional days were suspended due to adverse weather conditions. Fort Bragg, 30 F 69 [NN]
39. Restricting the assignment of non-teaching duties. West Point Elementary School, 34 F 163 [NN]
40. Requiring that teachers be excused from performing nonprofessional duties for an amount of time equivalent to the time spent covering for an absent specialist. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 39 F 10 [NN]
41. Placing an absolute requirement on the agency to provide teachers assigned to lunchroom monitoring with a duty-free lunch period upon request. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 39 F 10 [NN]
42. Requiring that every reasonable effort be made to provide each affected teacher with an aide. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 39 F 10 [NN]
43. Eliminating the agency's requirement that early elementary school teachers remain at school for 30 minutes after the instructional day ended in order to offset the 30-minute increase in the length of the instructional day. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 39 F 10 [NN]
44. Requiring that affected teachers be granted to the fullest extent possible an adequate period of time following semester examinations to record and report examination scores. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 39 F 10 [N]
45. Requiring that the open house be scheduled during the day. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 42 F 15 [NN]. Upheld in Overseas Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 961 F.2d 36 (2nd Circuit, 1992).
46. Requiring that the agency dismiss students for one-half day so that teachers can prepare for the open house. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 42 F 15 [NN]. Upheld in Overseas Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 961 F.2d 36 (2nd Circuit, 1992).
47. The guidelines regarding the open house program established the previous year will remain the same. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 42 F 15 [NN]. Upheld in Overseas Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 961 F.2d 36 (2nd Circuit, 1992).
48. The open house program will be held on October 2 or one day during the first week of October. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 42 F 15 [NN]. Upheld in Overseas Education Association v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 961 F.2d 36 (2nd Circuit, 1992).
49. Prescribing the numbers and duration of faculty and other meetings that employees may be required to attend after the work day. Fort Bragg and Fort Bragg Association of Teachers, 44 F 70 [NN]
50. Specifying the number of evening meetings that employees may be required to attend during the school year. Fort Bragg and Fort Bragg Association of Teachers, 44 F 70 [NN]
51. Employees who attend evening meetings shall be permitted to leave school thirty minutes prior to the end of the work day. Fort Bragg and Fort Bragg Association of Teachers, 44 F 70 [NN]
52. Agency will reinstate employees to their former positions and duty stations when they return to work, unless their temporary disability exceeds thirty working days. Fort Bragg and Fort Bragg Association of Teachers, 44 F 70 [NN]
53. Requiring that the special needs class continue to be taught by a teacher under contract to the agency. Agriculture, Forest Service and National Federation of Federal Employees, 49 F 34 [NN, (a)(2)(B)]
54. Dictating the specific subjects to be assigned to teachers of two classes. Agriculture, Forest Service and National Federation of Federal Employees, 49 F 34 [NN, (a)(2)(B)]
55. Preventing management from assigning the teaching of G. E. D. students to a single teacher until the class size of the overloaded G. E. D. classroom is reduced. Agriculture, Forest Service and National Federation of Federal Employees, 49 F 34 [NN, (a)(2)(B)]
56. Permitting teachers who are assigned lunchroom supervision to alternate responsibility for those duties so that each teacher may have a duty-free time during the lunch period. Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools, Fort Rucker Dependent Schools, Fort Rucker, Alabama and National Education Association, Overseas Education Association, Fort Rucker Education Association, 53 F 76 [N, (b)(3)]
1. Assigning job-related fire fighter training. Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 3 F 66 [NN]
2. Agency to assign telephone monitoring duties to Quality Review Personnel only if these employees have received training. Internal Revenue Service, 6 F 98 [NN]
3. Prescribing when fire fighter training will be scheduled and barring its taking place after 2030 hours. Vandenberg Air Force Base, 7 F 122 [NN]
4. Prohibiting the assignment of work for which they have not been trained to newly reassigned employees. Office of Personnel Management, 15 F 55 [NN]
5. Adequate training for performance in a new specialty will be performed on duty time. Social Security Administration, 22 F 92 [NN]
6. Employees will not be held accountable for work for which they have not been trained. Topeka Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 24 F 17 [NN]
7. Determining which employees will receive which work assignments and training. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 25 F 9 [NN]
8. Agency to provide each employee with the training specified in his individual development plan. Office of Personnel Management, 26 F 55 [NN]
9. Setting aside two hours in which employees might rearrange their desks and adjust their work patterns to accord with management's new training memorandum. Office of Personnel Management, 26 F 76 [N]
10. Agency to refrain from assigning employee to a new post or position if the employee feels that additional training is necessary to perform the duties associated with the new assignment. Justice, 29 F 73 [NN]
11. Employer will provide employees on-the-job cross-training to the maximum extent practicable, using techniques such as interchanging employees. Fort Shafter, 29 F 126 [NN]
12. If new equipment is installed new procedures implemented appropriate training will be provided affected employees. Fort Shafter, 29 F 126 [NN]
13. The employer agrees to provide opportunities for employees to improve their skills through on-the-job training, work-duty programs, or other training programs including redesigning jobs where and if feasible so that they may perform at their highest potential and advance in accordance with their abilities. Fort Shafter, 29 F 126 [NN]
14. Employees be given the training prior to being assigned to work designated areas. Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 31 F 77 [NN]
15. Agency to make effort to use employees' skills to the fullest extent and to provide the maximum feasible number of opportunities for employee to improve their skills through any of a variety of training sources. Concord Naval Weapons Station, 32 F 146 [NN]
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1. Agency to allow employees to work part time if they have a legitimate reason such as education. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 21 F 104 [NN]
2. Establishing a new tour of duty. Office of Personnel Management, 21 F 128 [NN]
3. Agency to make every effort to insure uniformity in the assignment of employees to inspection activities and tours of duty. Office of Personnel Management, 21 F 128 [N]
4. Agency to assign a reduced workload to part time employees who are restricted to a tour of less than forty hours per week. Health and Human Services, 23 F 30 [NN]
5. An employee's assignment to a section or a shift may not be changed for 60 days and may then only be changed upon the written request of the employee. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 25 F 9 [NN]
6. When the night shift does not run, the agency will assign the displaced workers to the operating day shifts on the basis of seniority. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 25 F 9 [N]
7. Agency will grant an employee request for permanent shift relief if staffing permits and the employee has demonstrated competence and reliability in performing duties with minimal supervision. Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 27 F 37 [N]
1. Limiting management's right to assign union officials to details, special assignments, or any other out of district activities. Marshals Service, 9 F 140 [NN]
2. Agency to give union officials an opportunity to work certain assignments before other employees are asked to volunteer. Internal Revenue Service, 17 F 60 [NN]. Reversed in part and remanded in National Treasury Employees Union v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 810 F.2d 1224 (D.C. Circuit, 1987). Internal Revenue Service, 28 F 11 on remand [N]
3. Certain union officials be assigned to the day shift unless the union agrees to a shift change. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 25 F 9 [N]
4. A union representative will not be transferred from one work area, shift, workweek to another except when there are compelling work commitments or training requirements. Fort Rucker, 28 F 152 [N]
5. Certain union officials be assigned to certain shifts. Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 30 F 89 [NN]
6. Restricting the agency's ability to assign certain union representatives to other work areas where a change in work area may necessitate a change in duties. Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 31 F 18 [NN]
7. Reassignments of certain representatives must be approved by division heads. Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 31 F 18 [NN]
8. Barring transfer of union representative out of the shop or shift to which he/she is assigned without the permission of the union. San Diego Naval Air Rework, 31 F 20 [NN]
9. Barring management from temporarily promoting detailing union officer in supervisory position while that person is serving as a union officer or steward. Office of Personnel Management, 31 F 22 [NN]
10. Giving the union official the option of accepting or refusing an assignment of supervisory duties or an assignment to a supervisory position. Concord Naval Weapons Station, 32 F 146 [NN]
11. Providing that to permit the adjustment of an employee's grievance where an employee and his or her representative work different shifts, the agency will either change the employee's shift to that of his or her representative or pay overtime. Fort Campbell and American Federation of Government Employees, 40 F 38 [N]
12. Providing for a retraining period for certain union officials who are returning to their regular duties on a full-time basis. Patent and Trademark Office and Patent Office Professional Association, 41 F 72 [NN]
13. Allowing an employee serving in the capacity of union representative to request a reassignment of work. Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and National Treasury Employees Union, 43 F 117 [N]
14. Limiting the work assignment of a union official. Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and National Association of Government Employees, 48 F 137 [NN, (a)(2)(A)]
1. Providing criteria for the agency's approval of employees' requests to work from their homes under certain circumstances. Internal Revenue Service, 1 F 102 [N]
2. Giving employees the option of deciding on what basis their work would be assigned. Social Security Administration, 7 F 139 [NN]
3. Certain assignments will be made using volunteers or, in the absence of volunteers, seniority, and permitting employees to switch assignments without management approval. Marshals Service, 8 F 62 [NN]
4. Allowing employees to choose to work as partners if they desire as long as they get their job done satisfactory to management. Marshals Service, 9 F 140 [NN]
5. Format whereby employees can indicate an interest in overtime assignments where management isn't required to assign overtime on the basis of those employee preferences. Marshals Service, 9 F 140 [N]
6. Management to allow employees to volunteer for certain assignments without requiring management to select volunteers before selecting non-volunteers. Health and Human Services, 11 F 103 [N]
7. Management to consider and grant requests for assignment to prime shifts from employees assigned to second and third shifts under certain circumstances. Internal Revenue Service, 14 F 45 [N]
8. Agency to solicit volunteers among all qualified claims representatives before assigning people to the overpayment unit. Social Security Administration, 15 F 114 [N]
9. Initial staffing of the newly established tour will be made using volunteers. Customs Service, 21 F 128 [N]
10. When temporary duty assignments are needed, the assignments may be exchanged with qualified volunteers. Agriculture, 22 F 52 [N]
11. Agency to use volunteers for any changes in tours of duty. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 21 F 57 [NN]
12. Overtime to be assigned to qualified volunteers and, if qualified volunteers are not available, to assign overtime fairly and equitable to those available with the requisite skills. Chillichothe Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 25 F 26 [N]
13. Prohibiting the agency from assigning volunteers and "stay-in-schools" in any way that results in replacing unit employees. Social Security Administration, 25 F 50 [NN]
14. Requiring the agency to assign either a volunteer or the person with the lowest seniority to the realigned position. Fort Leavenworth, 33 F 48 [NN]
15. Requiring the agency to reasonably insure that qualified volunteers are assigned an equal amount of downtime in each six month period. Social Security Administration, 38 F 15 [N]
16. Requiring the agency to make reasonable effort to obtain volunteers and funding for lunchroom monitors and to assign the task of lunchroom monitoring to aides instead of teachers. Department of Defense Dependents Schools and Overseas Education Association, 39 F 10 [N]
17. Only volunteers will be required to accompany patients who wish to smoke to an outside smoking shelter. Veterans Affairs and American Federation of Government Employees, 40 F 95 [NN]
18. Providing for the selection of volunteers for assignment to the Disability Unit. Social Security Administration and American Federation of Government Employees, 48 F 47 [NN, (a)(2)(A)]. On reconsideration 49 F 28 [N]
1. Prohibiting the assigning of weekend work to work leaders. Newington Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 26 F 63 (NN]
2. Requiring the hiring or assignment of an employee to perform workleader duties on weekends. Newington Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 26 F 63 [NN]
1. Giving all engineering personnel instructions in using the telephone in the Graphic Control Room. San Antonio Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 12 F 26 [NN]
2. Allowing a technician to remain in an incompatible military assignment for a period of up to one year after having voluntarily changed his or her civilian assignment. Kansas Air National Guard, 15 F 11 [NN]
3. Assignment of office audits to employees will be made under guidelines established for reassignments and voluntary downgrades. Internal Revenue Service, 17 F 60 [NN]
4. Prohibiting the agency from assigning certain military duties to technicians while they are in technician duties. Adjutant General of Massachusetts, 22 F 39 [NN]
5. Giving the instructor the option, with the approval of the supervisor, of closing a class which has five students or less. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 21 F 57 [NN]
6. Dual compensation cases will be counted as two cases. Social Security Administration, 23 F 21 [N]
7. Every employee working on a video display terminal to take a 15 minute rest break away from the terminal every hour. Social Security Administration, 24 F 81 [N]
8. Prohibiting the agency assigning unit employees to represent other employees even if that were part of the unit employee's position description. Library of Congress, 25 F 21 [NN]
9. A split shift for a particular employee, to enable him to perform both his duties as a church pianist and his work for the agency. Newington Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 26 F 63 [NN]
10. Civilian technicians not be required to bear arms, except under special circumstances. Wisconsin National Guard, 26 F 84 [NN]
11. Dealing with military aspects of technician employment. South Carolina National Guard, 28 F 81 [NN]
12. Specifying who will sign a form which provides a student's educational plan. Department of Defense Dependents Schools, 29 F 49 [NN]
13. New employees be given orientation and precluding management from assigning them to the normal staffing pattern or assigning them to be in charge when in orientation. Wood Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 29 F 62 [NN]
14. Technicians have both their military and civilian assignments in the same unit or a unit and facility supporting the unit. Pennsylvania National Guard, 29 F 102 [NN]
15. Employee in the Solicitor's office is assigned to process the waivers permitted by Statute. Commerce, 29 F 116 [NN]
16. Limiting management rights to assign work on meeting an environmental precondition. Interior, 30 F 93 [NN]
17. Preventing the agency from moving two employees, who were reassigned to the Special Procedures function as a result of a reorganization, from its Phillips Highway office to its Federal Building. Internal Revenue Service, 32 F 128 [NN]
18. Precluding the agency from changing an employee's tour of duty to accommodate court appearances unless the employee and the agency agree to the change in advance. Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 32 F 135 [NN]
19. Permitting an employee to request a written rationale from the labor relations office. Army, 33 F 77 [NN]
20. Requiring the labor relations officer to perform certain duties. Army, 33 F 77 [NN]
21. Requiring registration with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians be voluntary. Fort Leonard, 34 F 137 [NN]
22. Agency will negotiate with the union a voluntary system for assigning flag placement duties on holidays. Newington Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 35 F 60 [N]
23. Requiring the agency to withdraw its procedure requiring civilian security guards to salute military officers and cars identified with officer decals. Charleston Naval Station, 38 F 2 [NN]
24. Limiting trial periods in the agency's signatory authority program to 700 hours. Patent and Trademark Office and Patent Office Professional Association, 39 F 68 [NN]
25. Requiring that the length of the trial periods during which the agency evaluates examiners' performance in the program shall be limited to 700 hours. Patent and Trademark Office and Patent Office Professional Association, 39 F 68 [NN]
26. Permitting an employee to omit information from the Department of Defense Form 398 when that employee objects to having his or her supervisor review such information. Defense Mapping Agency and National Federation of Federal Employees, 40 F 74 [NN]. Reversed in Defense Mapping Agency v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 955 F.2d 764 (D.C. Circuit, 1992).
27. Implementation of the agency's decision to terminate the pilot weather briefing program at certain field offices will be delayed for 180 days and the agency will inform users that the services won't be rendered if request for briefings don't reach 100 per month. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service Employees Organization, 46 F 3 [NN]
28. Assignment of unit employees to participate on TQM teams will be voluntary. Griffiss Air Force Base and American Federation of Government Employees. 46 F 56 [NN]
29. Relating to the agency's decision to delay the relocation of certain positions. Trenton Naval Air Warfare Center and American Federation of Government Employees, 49 F 142 [N]. On reconsideration in 50 F 89 [NN, GWR]
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