By Dan Gephart, June 4, 2019 In a decision earlier this year, the Federal Labor Relation Authority, to the delight of labor relations practitioners government-wide, reaffirmed a seminal decision from 2018, emphasizing the statutory distinction between conditions of...
By Dan Gephart, May 15, 2019 The Phillies were hitting the stuffing out of the ball, the Sixers were engaged in a physical playoff series with the Brooklyn Nets, and the Eagles were preparing for the NFL Draft. So when I turned on a Philadelphia sports radio station...
By Dan Gephart, April 16, 2019 Spurred on by the executive orders issued last year by President Trump, Health and Human Services resumed a once-stalled collective bargaining process with the National Treasury Employees Union. Those negotiations reached an impasse that...
By Dan Gephart, April 10, 2019 Guess who made a long visit to my alma mater this year? The Mumps. No, the obscure 1970s kitschy New York punk-pop band known for its outrageous live shows didn’t re-form for Temple University’s Spring Fling. I’m talking about the...
March 19, 2019 When former Merit Systems Protection Board Chair Susan Tsui Grundmann started her new job as Executive Director of the Office of Compliance, quite a few people didn’t know what the OOC was, or what it did. That soon changed. Grundmann barely had...
By Dan Gephart, March 13, 2019 Two weeks ago, nearly 16 million people watched Michael Cohen tell the House Oversight Committee about the many illegal, unethical, disreputable, and downright nasty things that he did at his boss’s direction. Whether you believe the...
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