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THE CIVIL SERVICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Definition 1 of 38
- an extra benefit supplementing an employees salary, for example, a company car, subsidized
meals, health insurance, etc
Fringe benefit
Staffing separations
Agency Shop
Strike right
Definition 2 of 38
- staffing separation
- government offers cash incentives to employees who agree to leave government
employment
Fringe benefit
Reductions in Force (RIFs)
Union Shop
Buyouts
Definition 3 of 38
- national emergency strikes: strikes that might imperil the national health and safety
Teachers vs Hudson (1968)
Allow the president to temporarily bar national emergency strike (taft-hartley act)
General Schedule series
Harris vs Quinn (2014)
,Definition 4 of 38
- govs do not often concede the right of their employees to strike agains the sovereign state.
DOD, department of state
- less vital government services, variations exist
- some states do provide a limited right to strike
Agency Shop
Strike right
Union Shop
Grade creep
Definition 5 of 38
- can be divided into 5 "categories" of work:
1. professional (attorney, medical officer, biologist)
2. administrative (personnel management specialist, budget analysts, general supply specialist)
3. technical (forestry technician, accounting technician, pharmacy technician)
4. clerical (secretary, office automation clerk, data transcriber, mail clerk)
5. other (firefighter, various law enforcement occupations)
Allow the president to temporarily bar national emergency strike (taft-hartley act)
General Schedule series
Teachers vs Hudson (1968)
Harris vs Quinn (2014)
,Definition 6 of 38
- the professional association of air traffic controllers struck on August of 1981, despite a no
strike clause
- PATCO sought higher wages and benefits
- President Regan fired the strikers and used military controllers to keep traffic moving
- The Federal Labor Relations Authority decertified PATCO, but the new controllers voted in a
new union in 1987
- The PATCO strike was a watershed event for labor
- the strike hurt the image of labor for nearly two decades and legitimized hard-line
bargaining by employers
- during the Clinton Administration, the strikers were offered their jobs back and a few returned
How do you classify a position?
Collective bargaining
After 2000: diminishing union rights
The early 1980s PATCO strike
Definition 7 of 38
- employment system used by democratic governments to minimize political tinkering with the
administrative process
1. employees are:
- attached to positions
- hired by merit
- protected from political interference and dismissal
Unions (public employees rights)
General Schedule series
Taft-Hartley Act 1947
Civil service system
, Definition 8 of 38
- TSA: transportation security act: union-free
- Department of Homeland security: "meaningful collective bargaining", implementing a new
HR management system
1. reducing the number of situations where collective bargaining is required
2. streamlining adverse actions and appeals process, specifically:
- expanding non negotiable management rights
- bargaining on procedure was prohibited
- limited bargaining on the impact of a management action
- expedited collective bargaining with impasse resolution
- One stop dispute resolution
-Challenged by: National treasuring employees unions vs Michael Chertoff, secretary,
department of homeland security
The early 1980s PATCO strike
Union Facts in Jan 2013
After 2000: diminishing union rights
Maintenance of membership arrangement
Definition 9 of 38
- type of union security
- employees who do not belong to the union still pay union dues: share the cost
- How?: *Teachers vs Hudson, 475 US 292 (1968)
Closed shop
Union Shop
Agency Shop
Maintenance of membership arrangement
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