FLRA review of arbitration awards

March 16, 1989

Synopsis By: Golick
Proceeding Author:
James M. Harkless
 

The author examines the disturbingly high percentage of FLRA reversals in cases where federal agencies appeal arbitration awards. Modifications and reversals fall primarily into two categories: those involving the Back Pay Act, and those where arbitrators are found to have intruded on management’s statutory right to direct and assign employees.


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