Federal Manager's Daily Report

The FLRA has issued an updated version of its Guide to Arbitration Under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.

The update is designed to give parties to cases before it clear and current guidance, and flows from the most recent strategic plan, which seeks to promote constructive labor-management relations, the FLRA said.

The guide, available on the FLRA site, takes into account FLRA decisions issued since the last version in 2013 and has been reformatted to be more readable, the agency said.

It covers matters such as the scope of the negotiated grievance procedure; the procedural and substantive requirements for filing arbitration except ions and oppositions with the Authority; the legal standards of review that the Authority applies in arbitration cases; the requirements for complying with arbitration awards; and judicial review of Authority decisions in arbitration cases.