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Department of Veterans Affairs, Dwight D. Eisenhower Medical Center and American Federation of Government Employees, Local 85
Eisenhower VA Medical Center and AFGE Local 85 (FLRA 7-CA-10326): Asbestos differential pay award enforced
An arbitrator awarded environmental differential pay to Canteen and Cemetery Service employees at the Eisenhower VA Medical Center for exposure to airborne asbestos. The medical center did not comply with the final award. An administrative law judge found that refusal to be an unfair labor…
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Austin Compliance Center and National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 247
IRS Austin Compliance Center and NTEU Chapter 247 (FLRA 6-CA-90506): Backpay compliance order expanded
An arbitrator ordered the IRS Austin Compliance Center to reinstate an employee and pay backpay, but the center delayed complying. An administrative law judge found some of the delays unlawful and ordered two additional weeks of backpay. The Authority also found an unlawful delay in processing the…
Overseas Education Association and U.S. Department of Defense Dependents Schools
Overseas Education Association and DOD Dependents Schools (FLRA 0-AR-2206): Attorney fee denial set aside
An arbitrator ordered DOD Dependents Schools to reimburse employees' travel and transportation expenses for certain transfers, then denied the union's request for attorney fees. The Authority rejected the union's challenges to the arbitrator's findings on two fee grounds: whether the agency knew it…
S and H Mining, Incorporated
Electrical orders affirmed with $800 penalties
S and H Mining operated an underground coal mine in Tennessee. Judge William Fauver found that a damaged cable-coupler lock and an improperly shielded high-voltage cable splice created serious electrical hazards and involved unwarrantable failure. He affirmed Orders 3174055 and 3174056 under the…
Star-Kist Caribe, Inc.
In re Star-Kist Caribe, Inc. (EAB NPDES Appeal No. 88-5): modification request denied
EPA Region II petitioned for a substantial modification to the Administrator's April 16, 1990 decision in the Star-Kist matter. That earlier decision addressed whether EPA could authorize schedules of compliance in NPDES permits when applicable state water-quality standards did not authorize them…
In re: Contents of Respirable Dust Sample Alteration Citations
Motions to vacate citations denied
Several coal operators asked the judge to vacate citations alleging that respirable dust samples had been altered by removing part of the dust from the samples. They argued that the Secretary issued the citations too long after the samples were collected and after officials concluded that…
Matter of Adetiba
Separate fraud offenses were not one scheme
The Board reviewed a Nigerian lawful permanent resident's appeal from a deportation order based on multiple fraud-related convictions involving credit cards, fictitious identities, false Social Security numbers, and access devices. The Board held that separate offenses committed through different…
Redwood National Park, Crescent City, California and National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 2091
Redwood National Park and NFFE Local 2091 (FLRA 9-CA-10505): Employee addresses ordered released
NFFE Local 2091 asked Redwood National Park for the home addresses of the employees it represented. The park refused. An administrative law judge found the refusal to be an unfair labor practice, and the Authority adopted the judge's findings and order under its existing employee address precedent…
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, Navajo Area, and Albuquerque Area and National Council of Bureau of Indian Affairs Educators, Local 4524
BIA Navajo and Albuquerque Areas and educators' union (FLRA 76-CA-10599): Employee addresses ordered released
The union representing Bureau of Indian Affairs educators requested the names and home addresses of bargaining unit employees. The Navajo and Albuquerque Area offices refused to provide them. The Authority adopted an administrative law judge's finding that those refusals were unfair labor practices…
National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1379 and U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office
NFFE Local 1379 and BLM Oregon State Office (FLRA 0-NG-1987): Bargaining required over leased shop smoking proposal
NFFE Local 1379 proposed designating a maintenance shop leased by the Bureau of Land Management from Lane County as a smoking area. The agency argued that county and local smoking restrictions made the proposal nonnegotiable and that the county had already rejected its requests for an exception…
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1770 and U.S. Department of the Army, Headquarters, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg
AFGE Local 1770 and Fort Bragg (FLRA 0-AR-2212): Unsupported attorney fee denial set aside
An arbitrator awarded an employee two hours of overtime pay for attending a grievance meeting on a day off, then denied the union's request for attorney fees. The arbitrator gave only a brief conclusion that fees were not warranted in the interest of justice. The Authority held that the Back Pay…
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Lodge 39 and U.S. Department of the Navy, Naval Aviation Depot, Norfolk
Machinists Lodge 39 and Naval Aviation Depot Norfolk (FLRA 0-AR-2194): Earlier unfair labor practice charge bars grievance
Machinists Lodge 39 sought to negotiate a higher environmental differential pay rate for employees in the Navy depot's plating shops. After filing an unfair labor practice charge over the Navy's refusal to bargain, the union filed a grievance raising the same issue. The union later withdrew the…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration and American Federation of Government Employees, National Council of SSA Field Operations Locals
SSA and AFGE Field Operations Locals (FLRA 0-AR-2190): Ergonomic furniture bargaining award upheld
The Social Security Administration agreed to use its best efforts to install ergonomic furniture alongside computers in its field offices. After the agency installed computers far faster than furniture, an arbitrator sustained the union's grievance and directed the parties to negotiate a schedule…
U.S. Department of the Army, Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center and National Association of Government Employees, Local R1-34
Army Natick Center and NAGE Local R1-34 (FLRA 0-AR-2181): Suspension reduction returned for clarification
The Army suspended an employee for 14 days on two misconduct charges. An arbitrator upheld one charge, rejected the other, and reduced the suspension to three days. The Army argued that the arbitrator mistakenly treated the sustained charge as a first offense despite an earlier reprimand. The…
Mid-Continent Resources Incorporated
Settlement amended, one citation vacated
Mid-Continent Resources and the Secretary reached a settlement in a civil penalty proceeding involving the Dutch Creek Mine. The amended decision approved the settlement, vacated Citation No. 3586432, and affirmed Citations Nos. 9996593, 9996594, and 9996595, each with a proposed penalty of $20…
Mid-Continent Resources Incorporated
Settlement approved with reduced penalties
Mid-Continent Resources and the Secretary reached a settlement in a civil penalty proceeding involving the Dutch Creek Mine. The amended decision approved the settlement, affirmed the cited violations, and reduced several proposed penalties, including reductions from $147 to $88, $119 to $71, and…
Mid-Continent Resources Incorporated
Settlement approved with reduced penalties
Mid-Continent Resources and the Secretary reached a settlement in a civil penalty proceeding involving the Dutch Creek Mine. The amended decision approved the settlement, affirmed both cited violations, and reduced the proposed penalties from $276 and $240 to $166 and $144. The total assessment was…
Southern Ohio Coal Company
Safeguard validity issue remanded
Southern Ohio Coal challenged a citation based on a notice requiring at least 36 inches of combined side clearance for rubber-tired haulage equipment at its underground Meigs No. 2 Mine. The Commission held that a safeguard must be based on the inspector's judgment about specific conditions at the…
A. E. Staley Mfg. Co.
Settlement affirmed over union participation objection
The Secretary and A. E. Staley Manufacturing reached a settlement that an administrative law judge approved. The authorized employee representative, Allied Industrial Workers Local 837, sought review and argued that it had been denied meaningful participation. The record showed that the union…
Loomis Cabinet Company
Cabinet workers held to be employees
Loomis Cabinet Company manufactured wooden cabinets and was cited after a follow-up inspection for repeat, other-than-serious, and failure-to-abate violations. Loomis stipulated to the violations but argued that its former employees had become partners in Eastview Cabinet Company, leaving Loomis…
Steele Branch Mining
One violation affirmed, one reduced
Steele Branch Mining was cited after an investigation involving a fatal accident at its surface mine. Judge Avram Weisberger found that a grader's excessive steering-wheel play violated the requirement to maintain mobile equipment in safe operating condition and assessed $85 for that violation. He…
Cargill, Inc.
In re Cargill, Inc. (EAB RCRA Appeal No. 92-14): review denied
Reverend Charles Lenard Floyd petitioned for review of EPA Region IX's decision to issue Cargill, Inc. a RCRA permit for a hazardous-waste incinerator in Lynwood, California. He argued that the Region failed to follow California public-meeting procedures and therefore did not give Lynwood residents…
Tunnelton Mining Company
Withdrawal granted and case dismissed
Elmer Speelman asked to withdraw a discrimination proceeding against Tunnelton Mining Company. Judge Gary Melick granted the request under Commission Rule 11, 29 C.F.R. § 2700.11, and dismissed the case. The short order does not decide the underlying discrimination allegations or assign a penalty.
Peabody Coal Company
Multiple walkaround representatives entitled to pay
Peabody Coal operated the Martwick underground mine, where MSHA used multiple inspection teams during two quarterly inspection events. Peabody paid one miners' representative for accompanying inspectors but did not pay several other representatives who accompanied separate inspection groups. The…
Matter of A-A-
Murder conviction barred asylum and withholding
The Board reviewed a Salvadoran lawful permanent resident's appeal after an Immigration Judge found him deportable for a murder conviction, denied discretionary section 212(c) relief, and ordered deportation to El Salvador. The Board held that the aggravated-felony bar to asylum and the rule…
In re: Contests of Respirable Dust Sample Alteration Citations
Dust filters ordered produced for deposition
In the master docket concerning alleged respirable-dust sample alteration, mine operators asked the Secretary to produce cited and comparison filters for use during the deposition of the Secretary's expert, Dr. Marple. Judge James A. Broderick found that comparing representative cited filters with…
Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center, Atlantic City Airport and National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1340
FAA Technical Center and NFFE Local 1340 (FLRA 2-CU-10003): Temporarily detailed supervisor excluded from unit
NFFE Local 1340 sought to include an FAA supervisor in its employee bargaining unit while he was temporarily detailed to warehouse work during a misconduct investigation. The regional director excluded him. The Authority found that the employee still formally occupied his supervisory position…
U.S. Department of the Air Force, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base and Air Traffic Controllers Organization, Space Positioning Optical and Radar Tracking
Edwards Air Force Base and ATCO SPORT (FLRA 0-AR-2218): Second grievance over remedy barred by agreement
An employee challenged a finding that he was unqualified for two positions through the Air Force's administrative grievance process. The agency sustained that grievance and gave him priority consideration for vacancies. He then used the negotiated grievance process to challenge that remedy. An…
Ravenna Gravel
Late request to reopen final order denied
Ravenna Gravel failed to answer a civil penalty proceeding, and the chief administrative law judge entered a default decision. The decision became final after Ravenna did not seek discretionary review within the statutory period. More than a year later, Ravenna asked for relief, explaining that it…
Stone Portable Toilets
Dismissal conditionally affirmed pending proof of answer
An administrative law judge dismissed Stone Portable Toilets' notice of contest because the company had not filed an answer to the complaint or responded to an order to show cause. Owner Gary Stone told the Commission that he had filed the required answer, although the Commission's file contained…
Broshear Contractors, Inc.
Trench expert evidence admitted on remand
Broshear Contractors was cited for failing to adequately slope or support a trench under 29 C.F.R. § 1926.652. At the hearing, the administrative law judge excluded parts of a geotechnical expert's testimony about a later re-excavation of the trench and excluded the expert's written report. The…
Concrete Construction Company
Training affirmed and backfill violation reduced
Concrete Construction Company was cited after OSHA inspected two excavations beside a public road during a water-line project. The Commission rejected the company's inspection objections because the work was visible from a public area, the foreman consented to the inspection, and the company…
Jim Walter Resources Incorporated
Safeguard and citation affirmed
Jim Walter Resources contested a safeguard notice requiring additional protection in a man cage at its No. 4 Mine and a later citation alleging that the safeguard had not been followed. Judge Albert E. Koutras found that the inspector had identified a specific transportation hazard because the cage…
Ayers Limestone Quarry
Discrimination complaint dismissed after settlement withdrawal
Homer D. Bennett brought a discrimination proceeding against Ayers Limestone Quarry. At the hearing, Bennett requested approval to withdraw the complaint based on a settlement. Judge Gary Melick dismissed the proceeding. The short scanned release has several unreadable passages, so the summary is…
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2022 and U.S. Department of the Army, Fort Campbell, Kentucky
AFGE Local 2022 and Fort Campbell (FLRA 0-AR-2213): Compensatory time grievance remains untimely
A Fort Campbell flight simulation instructor signed statements accepting compensatory time instead of overtime pay for weekend work. He later grieved, arguing that the work should have been paid as regularly scheduled overtime. An arbitrator dismissed the grievance because it was filed more than 15…
General Services Administration, Region 9 and American Federation of Government Employees, Council 236
GSA Region 9 and AFGE Council 236 (FLRA 0-AR-2204): Highest previous pay rate grievance denied
A GSA employee sought a higher pay rate when selected for a GS-11 contracting specialist position, relying on work he had performed in Alaska roughly eight to ten years earlier. An arbitrator denied his grievance because he read the agency's highest previous rate rule as requiring experience from…
National Labor Relations Board and National Labor Relations Board Union
NLRB and NLRB Union (FLRA 0-AR-2184): Promotion discrimination award returned for pretext finding
An NLRB employee alleged sex discrimination after a male applicant was chosen for a supervisory attorney position. An arbitrator found discrimination and ordered a new selection using objective standards, with appointment of the grievant if the agency missed a deadline. The Authority held that the…
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
In re Bethlehem Steel Corporation (EAB TSCA Appeal No. 92-1): complaint reinstated and remanded
EPA Region III filed an administrative complaint against Bethlehem Steel Corporation seeking penalties under section 16(a) of the Toxic Substances Control Act. The complaint alleged that Bethlehem Steel filed a false report in violation of TSCA section 15(3). An Administrative Law Judge dismissed…
Matter of Balsillir
Amended law provided three independent waivers
The Board reviewed a certified case involving a conditional permanent resident from the Philippines who sought a waiver of the joint-petition requirement for removal of the conditions on her residence. The legal question was whether amended section 216(c)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act…
Matter of Rahman
Change of venue required good cause
The Board reviewed an interlocutory appeal from an immigration judge's order moving an exclusion hearing from Phoenix, Arizona, to Los Angeles, California. The Board held that a change of venue requires good cause, determined by balancing factors such as administrative convenience, witnesses, cost…
U.S. Department of the Army, Red River Army Depot and National Association of Government Employees, Local R14-52
Red River Army Depot and NAGE Local R14-52 (FLRA 0-AR-2192): Attorney fee denial upheld after remand
An arbitrator granted an employee a cash award after finding that Red River Army Depot had wrongly denied a pay increase, then denied the union's request for attorney fees. The Authority earlier returned the fee issue for a fuller explanation of whether the case served the federal workforce or…
Donner Coal Company, Inc.
Citations modified, one vacated, and $793 penalty assessed
Donner Coal Company operated the Black Rose No. 1 Mine. Judge Roy J. Maurer found that several cited conditions were significant and substantial, while other findings were not supported by the circumstances. He modified two citations to remove their significant-and-substantial characterization…
U.S. Department of the Air Force, Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base and American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1592
Ogden Air Logistics Center and AFGE Local 1592 (FLRA 0-AR-2238): Fully successful appraisal upheld
An employee at the Ogden Air Logistics Center challenged an annual performance appraisal of fully successful. An arbitrator found no basis to overturn it, although the supervisor had not properly documented the employee's work. The union argued that the arbitrator had ignored a contract requirement…
U.S. Department of the Air Force, San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Kelly Air Force Base and American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1617
Kelly Air Force Base and AFGE Local 1617 (FLRA 0-AR-2197): Reduction in force reassignment upheld
During a reduction in force at the San Antonio Air Logistics Center, the Air Force eliminated a production controller's position and reassigned him to another branch without reducing his grade or pay. The union argued that management had structured the reorganization to target him for his union…
Asarco, Incorporated
Stop-cord citations vacated
Asarco contested two citations alleging that emergency stop cords on conveyor belts were not properly located and an order concerning a separate mine standard. Judge August F. Cetti found that the stop cords were positioned so a person could readily deactivate the conveyors and rejected the…
Sal Masonry Contractors, Inc.
Ladder item vacated and guardrail violation made willful
Sal Masonry Contractors was cited for ladder and scaffold violations during masonry work on an academic building at Cornell University. The Commission vacated the scaffold-access item because the testimony conflicted over whether a ladder was present and whether supervisors knew employees were…
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2094 and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Manhattan Medical Center
AFGE Local 2094 and Manhattan VA Medical Center (FLRA 0-AR-2233): Removal award exceptions dismissed for lack of jurisdiction
An arbitrator ordered a Manhattan VA Medical Center ward clerk reinstated after her removal, subject to conditions and without backpay. The union challenged the lack of backpay before the Authority. The Authority held that it could not review the exceptions because the award concerned an employee…
Drummond Company, Inc.
Excessive-history penalties remanded for recalculation
Drummond challenged civil penalties calculated under the Secretary of Labor's interim excessive-history program. The Commission held that the program exceeded an interim court mandate, was adopted without the required notice-and-comment process, and conflicted with the Secretary's Part 100 penalty…
Keystone Coal Mining Corp.
Summary decision denied in respirable-dust contest
Keystone Coal Mining challenged citations based on single-shift respirable-dust samples taken under MSHA's spot-inspection program. Judge Avram Weisberger found that the record did not establish whether the change from multi-shift to single-shift sampling affected the operator's substantive rights…
Matter of Arthur
Marriage-based reopening required clear proof
The Board reviewed an appeal from the denial of a motion to reopen deportation proceedings so the respondent could seek adjustment of status based on a visa petition filed by his United States citizen spouse. The Board held that later congressional amendments created a presumption against marriages…
United Power Trades Organization and U.S. Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla, Washington
United Power Trades Organization and Walla Walla Corps of Engineers (FLRA 0-NG-1951): Workplace proposals split
The United Power Trades Organization proposed contract terms concerning discipline records, performance standards, pay schedules, grievances, promotions, and reduction in force vacancies at the Corps of Engineers' Walla Walla office. The Authority found many terms negotiable, including fair…
United States Customs Service, Southwest Region, El Paso, Texas and National Treasury Employees Union
Customs Service, El Paso and NTEU (FLRA 6-CA-10556, 6-CA-10557): Shift changes require bargaining
The Customs Service changed El Paso cargo inspectors' shifts and tours of duty without giving NTEU adequate notice and an opportunity to bargain over the impact and implementation. The Authority adopted the administrative law judge's finding that the changes violated federal labor law. It found…
Peabody Coal Company
Discrimination proceeding dismissed
The Secretary brought a discrimination case on behalf of miners who refused to work after water entered electrical light fixtures in a mine shower room. Judge James A. Broderick found that the miners initially had a reasonable, good-faith safety concern, but that the concern was no longer…
56th Combat Support Group, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida and National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 153
MacDill Air Force Base and NFFE Local 153 (FLRA 4-CA-00465): Smoking ban remedy narrowed
The 56th Combat Support Group imposed a smoking ban in a MacDill Air Force Base building without first notifying NFFE Local 153 and giving it a chance to bargain. The Authority upheld an unfair labor practice finding because the union had not clearly waived its bargaining rights and the agency had…
U.S. Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia and American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2096
Navy Dahlgren and AFGE Local 2096 (FLRA 0-AR-2139): Hazard pay award upheld
Employees at the Navy's Dahlgren facility sought hazard differential pay for work on warhead and missile projects during one week in March 1990. An arbitrator awarded them 25 percent of basic pay for that week, finding that the hazardous duties were intermittent and had not been counted in…
Matter of Coelho
Serious drug offense outweighed immigration equities
The Board reviewed a Portuguese lawful permanent resident's appeal from a deportation order based on a cocaine-conspiracy and possession conviction, along with his request for a section 212(c) waiver and a motion to remand. The Board recognized his more than 23 years of residence in the United…
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2391, AFL-CIO and Robert M. Wangeman
AFGE Local 2391 and Robert Wangeman (FLRA 9-CO-70014): Union attorney fees set at market rate
AFGE Local 2391 prevailed in an unfair labor practice case and sought reimbursement for work by its staff attorney. An administrative law judge awarded fees using a cost-based formula, but the Authority held that the Equal Access to Justice Act allowed a market-rate award paid into the union's…
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Southwest Region, Airways Facilities Sector, Austin, Texas and David McFarlin
FAA Austin and David McFarlin (FLRA 6-CA-01217): Reconsideration of promotion ruling denied
David McFarlin asked the Authority to reconsider its earlier decision rejecting a claim that the FAA had denied him a promotion because of union activity. He said the Authority had failed to address the parties' exceptions to the administrative law judge's ruling. The Authority explained that it…
U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service and American Federation of Government Employees, National Border Patrol Council and National Immigration and Naturalization Service Council
INS and AFGE Councils (FLRA 3-CA-00497): Firearms policy changes during impasse violated bargaining duties
The Immigration and Naturalization Service revised its firearms policy while six union proposals about the policy were pending before the Federal Service Impasses Panel. The Authority found that INS had to preserve existing conditions during that process to the extent consistent with necessary…
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2145 and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia
AFGE Local 2145 and Richmond VA Medical Center (FLRA 0-NG-1970): Negotiability appeal filed too late
AFGE Local 2145 sought review of a proposal limiting how long the Richmond VA Medical Center could keep employee admonishments and reprimands in its files. The union and agency had signed a November 1990 agreement acknowledging their dispute over that proposal and stating that the union would…
What these documents are
- The agencies: Federal workers' compensation appeals from the Department of Labor's Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB), federal-sector labor-relations cases from the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), mine-safety cases from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), workplace-safety cases from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), Longshore Act and Black Lung Benefits Act appeals from the Department of Labor's Benefits Review Board (BRB), precedent decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), environmental permit and penalty appeals from the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB), and whistleblower and other labor appeals from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Each decision page names its agency.
- Commission, Board and Authority decisions: Rulings by the agency's highest review level (the Commission at OSHRC and FMSHRC, the Authority at FLRA, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Administrative Review Board at Labor, and the Environmental Appeals Board at EPA). These are citable as precedent, though a decision may have been appealed to a U.S. Court of Appeals after issuance.
- ALJ decisions: Rulings by the agency's Administrative Law Judges after a hearing. When no Commissioner directs review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order that binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent: under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j) at OSHRC, and after the 40-day window of 30 U.S.C. § 823(d)(1) at FMSHRC.
- Why finality matters: Every page here says which kind of decision you are reading, so you know whether it is precedent you can cite or a final order that only shows how one judge ruled on one set of facts.
- Where they come from: Every page links the official public release from the deciding agency, and the full text on the page is that release. The plain-English summaries are written by Ezel.