Contract Basics
Articlarity
Do You Definitively Know?
Acronymble
Potpourri
100
This collective bargaining agreement governs the relationship between Forest Service Management and NFFE.
What is the Master Agreement?
100
Covers rights during an investigation.
What is Article 4?
100
A temporary lateral assignment to a different position or set of duties for a specific period, may be voluntary or involuntary.
What is a detail?
100
RSAW.
What is a regularly scheduled administrative workweek?
100
ADR.
Alternate Dispute Resolution?
200
5 U.S.C. 71
What is the Federal Labor Relations Statute?
200
Covers reserved and permissive rights.
What is Article 6?
200
A complaint by any employee, labor organization, or agency concerning violation of agreement, law, rule or regulation. .
What is a grievance?
200
PIP.
What is a performance improvement period or plan?
200
This is a discussion which is formal in nature, between one or more agency representatives and one or more bargaining unit employees or their representatives, and which concerns any grievance, personnel policy or practice, or other general condition of employment.
What is a Formal Discussion?
300
Where employees of an agency organizational work unit (e.g. a Forest) have voted to be represented by a union.
What is a Bargaining unit?
300
Covers proposals for changes to conditions of employment, but may not conflict with the MA.
What is Article 11?
300
When a qualified employee has been performing grade-controlling duties classified at a higher grade level for an extended period of time (normally 12 months).
What is an accretion of duties?
300
NFFE.
What is the National Federation of Federal Employees?
300
This process begins early, when ideas are forming. The parties establish common expectations and information is disclosed early in the process, with a shared understanding on confidentiality. The parties work as a team to solve problems rather than as adversaries to negotiate, show commitment to the process, and acknowledge each other’s interests..
What is Pre-Decisional Involvement?
400
There are 45 of these in the Master Agreement addressing a broad scope of topics.
What is an Article?
400
Covers overtime, night differential and Sunday differential.
What is Article 18?
400
This is a process for placing employees who have been displaced due to the abolishment of a position in their same competitive area and competitive level.
What is the Workforce Restructuring and Placement System(WRAPS)?
400
FLRA.
What is the Federal Labor Relations Authority?
400
This is deemed to be accurate when the principal duties, knowledge requirements, and supervisory relationships are described, and it covers 80 percent or more of the work situation.
What is a position description?
500
An individual employed by an agency having authority in the interest of the agency to hire, direct, assign, promote, reward, transfer, furlough, layoff, recall, suspend, discipline, or remove employees, to adjust their grievances.
What is a supervisor?
500
Covers filling vacancies, details, career ladders.
What is Article 16?
500
Must be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-bound (SMART). .
What is an performance measure or objective?
500
IAMAW.
What is the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers?
500
The 3 middle days of an employee’s tour of duty from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., excluding a meal break.
What are core hours?
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