Talks between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
and the National Treasury Employee Union about a legislative
personnel package have broken down, NTEU has said.
It said the talks concerned the scope of possible legislative
changes to the FDIC personnel system and that the two sides
had been close to an agreement on a proposal that lacked
many “anti-employee” provisions that had been in FDIC’s
original proposal.
It said that if the package FDIC intends to take to Congress
after its August recess includes many of those provisions
then it will fight the package.
The provisions included, “a reduction in employee appeal
rights; unilateral authority to change the RIF rules;
greatly expanded authority to use term employees; and an
elimination of collective bargaining over compensation and
benefits,” said NTEU.
