Standards involve whether the arbitration award at issue affects right reserved to management under federal labor relations law. Image: MaDedee/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe FLRA will offer virtual training July 23 beginning at 1 pm Eastern time to explain and describe the application of a precedent it set last year regarding the scope of management rights in bargaining.
The decision, in which an agency argued that an arbitrator had interfered with management’s right to discipline employees, set standards for assessing management-rights exceptions to arbitration awards that find violations of union contracts.
Those standards involve whether the arbitration award at issue affects right reserved to management under federal labor relations law and whether the arbitrator was enforcing or providing a remedy for a contract provision that falls within those rights.
In the decision, the FLRA noted that its policies in that area have changed over the years and said that it hopes the new standards “will serve as the foundation for future decision making, ensuring much-needed stability, predictability, and finality in this area of law.”
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