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1. Continuing living quarters allowances and post differentials to employees who are released from duty without pay to represent the union for the period of representation. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 22 FLRA 351, Proposal 2 [NN]
2. Agency reimburses employees for legal costs regardless of whether there was statutory authority for the agency to make such payments. CREA, 25 FLRA 306, Proposal 21 [NN]
3. Non-watch allowance to be paid to unit employees. District No. 1, Pacific Coast District, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, 26 FLRA 63, Proposal 7 [NN]
4. Agency to make every effort to house employees in agency housing units at no cost for rent or utilities. Maritime/Metal Trades Council, 26 FLRA 140, Proposal 4 [NN]
5. An allowance to clean and maintain uniforms provided by the agency. NAGE, SEIU, AFL–CIO, 26 FLRA 515, Proposal 9 [NN]
6. Housing allowances for all local hires. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 1 (third sentence) [NN]
7. Giving local hires and part-time employees the option of receiving a quarters allowance during the summer recess. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 2 [NN]
8. Housing allowances to employees choosing to live in economy housing when government housing was available. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 5 (second sentence) [NN]
9. Agency to pay the expenses of employees moving, by choice, between government housing and local economy housing. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 6 [NN]
10. Agency to reimburse unit employees for fees charged to those living in quarters on military bases. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 8 [N]
11. Agency to reimburse employees for cleaning fees charged in on-base housing. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 10 [N]
12. Agency to pay a rent differential to employees living in substandard housing. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 11 [NN]
13. Employees to receive, among other things, a quarters allowance when government quarters were available. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 23 [NN]
14. Entitling employees to post differentials and housing allowances without regard to the availability of government housing. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 24 [NN]
15. Entitling an employee moving from his privately–owned house into rental quarters to receive an indefinite quarters allowance. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 25 [NN]
16. Determining amounts of overseas differentials and allowances by negotiation. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 27 [NN]
17. An employee’s living quarters allowance will be determined without regard to his marital status. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 28 (first sentence) [NN]
18. Each spouse in a couple receive the maximum individual benefit where each spouse was entitled to a quarters allowance. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 29 [NN]
19. Exempting from the rule limiting the amount of allowance to be paid to an employee living in a residence owned by a family member an employee living in a residence owned by someone other than his spouse. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 30 [N]
20. Creating a public interest exception to rules requiring the suspension of allowances and post differential while in non-pay status. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 31 [NN] (as to post differentials) and [N] (as to allowances)
21. Enabling employees on leave without pay to continue to receive post differentials and quarters allowances. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 32 [NN]
22. Enabling employees to continue to receive post differentials and quarters allowances after retirement. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 33 [NN]
23. Entitling employees in non-pay status to allowances and differential for up to thirty days. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 34 [NN] (as to post differentials) and [N] (as to allowances)
24. Danger–pay allowances to employees at posts so designated by agreement of the parties. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 39 [NN]
25. Tuition reimbursement to employees sending their children to schools other than dependents schools under certain circumstances. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 40 [N]
26. Forbidding the agency from requiring or asking the employee to relocate in order that the agency might avoid one condition under which the tuition reimbursement under certain circumstances was payable. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 41 [N]
27. Granting an additional stipend to employees serving as reading-improvement teachers. Fort Knox Teachers Association, 28 FLRA 179 [N]
28. Additional compensation for certain employees when their duties concerned with compensatory education extend beyond the normal duty day. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 28 FLRA 700, Proposal 1 [N]
29. Additional compensation for Student Activity Fund Councils duties performed by teachers. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 28 FLRA 936, Proposal 2 [N]
30. Employees will receive a uniform allowance of $500 for the first year and $250 per year thereafter. AFGE, AFL–CIO, National Council of VA Locals, 29 FLRA 515, Proposal 7 [NN]
31. Teachers be financially compensated for the loss of preparation time. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 628, Proposal 1e [N]
32. Agency to compensate a teacher for loss of in–service training by paying for an appropriate 3–credit course at a university or college. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 628, Proposal 11b [N]
33. Requiring 4-days extra compensation for loss of preparation time. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 628, Proposal 10a [NN]
34. Agency to reimburse fees charged to employees for required official passports and visas. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 43 [N]
35. Agency to reimburse fees charged to employees for required tourist passports and visas. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 43 [NN]
36. Agency to reimburse teachers for training costs incurred to meet changes in qualification standards which management instituted since the beginning of the 1979–1980 school year. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 57 [N]
37. Employees retain all benefits and allowances to the extent authorized by law following the date of resignation. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 65 [NN]
38. Reimbursement for training expenses. Fort Bragg Association of Educators, NEA, 30 FLRA 508, Proposal 17 [N]
39. Requiring the agency, insofar as legally permissible and to the extent appropriate, to reimburse employees for wages and other compensation lost due to a furlough resulting from a sequestration or lapse of appropriation. NWSEO, 39 FLRA 1279 [N]
40. Requiring a waiver of subsection 031.12 (b) of the Department of State Standardized Regulations when a bargaining unit employee, who is not otherwise receiving a living quarters allowance, completes five consecutive years of service with the agency. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 40 FLRA 425, Proposal 1 [NN]
41. Eligibility for living quarters allowances that specifies circumstances under which subsection 032.12 (b) of Department of State Standardized Regulations will be waived. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 40 FLRA 425, Proposal 3 [N]
42. The agency will pay any expense associated with the practical examination. NFFE, Local 1214, 40 FLRA 1181, Proposal 2 (section 5) [NN]
43. The agency will pay all inherent costs of the examinations for National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians basic certification. NFFE, Local 1214, 40 FLRA 1181, Proposal 3 [NN]
44. Providing for full quarters allowances to activity employees on travel for temporary duty assignments and housed in government quarters unless the agency can prove that such accommodations are unequivocally essential to the temporary duty mission. NAGE, SEIU, Local R1–34, 43 FLRA 1526 [NN]
45. Requiring the agency to pay for alterations and maintenance of employees’ uniforms. NTEU, 46 FLRA 696, Proposals 2 and 3 [NN]
46. Requiring the agency, for 1 year, to pay employees who drive to and from the National Guard Maintenance and Training Equipment Site 0.21 per mile for the distance between Gowen Field and MATES. AFGE, Local 3006, 47 FLRA 155, Proposals 1 and 3 [NN]
47. The payment of return travel and transportation expenses for employees who transferred to posts of duty outside the continental United States. AFGE, National Border Patrol Council, 51 FLRA 1308, Provision 5 [NN, LAW]
48. Establishing 1 year as the minimum period of service required for purposes of employee eligibility for payment of return travel and transportation expenses from an overseas post of duty. AFGE, National Border Patrol Council, 51 FLRA 1308, Provision 7 [N]
49. Requiring the payment of per diem to employees who have chosen the option of using their own vehicles when detailed to another office. NAGE, Local R1–109, 53 FLRA 403, Proposal 5 [N]
50. Granting unit employees receiving living quarters allowances (LQA) the option of receiving advance LQA during the summer recess. FEA, 54 FLRA 1391, Proposal 6 [NN, GWR]
51. Procedures for payment of the military uniform allowance for unit members who are technicians required to wear the uniform and who are not prohibited by statute from receiving a clothing allowance. ACT, Inc., Rhode Island Chapter, 55 FLRA 420 [N]
52. Requiring the agency to pay an employee for certain losses of funds, resulting from the employer’s cancellation of previously approved leave. ACT, Puerto Rico Army Chapter, 56 FLRA 493, Provision 2 [NN, LAW]. Remanded in Association of Civilian Technicians, Puerto Rico Army Chapter v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 370 F.3d 1214 (D.C. Cir. 2001). On remand, ACT, Puerto Rico Army Chapter, 58 FLRA 318 [NN, LAW].
53. Requiring the use of the Tobyhanna Army Depot Army Working-Capital Fund to reimburse employees for any documented financial losses reported by those employees that resulted from the cancellation of the employees’ previously approved leave. AFGE, Local 1647, 59 FLRA 369, [NN, LAW]. Upheld in American Federation of Government Employees Local 1647 v. FLRA, No. 03-4552 (3rd Cir. 2004).
54. Requiring the Agency to reimburse employees in certain situations. ACT, Puerto Rico Army Chapter, 60 FLRA 1000 [NN, LAW]
55. Agency required to compensate unit employees for delays in their promotions when those delays result from the assignment to certain training. NATCA, 61 FLRA 437 [N, (b)(3)]

Fringe Benefits

1. Giving employees who are excluded by statute from the Federal Civil Service Retirement Program the option of obtaining coverage under the program. Maritime/Metal Trades Council, 18 FLRA 326, Proposal 4 [NN]
2. Cost–of–living increment to be paid to unit employees. District No. 1, Pacific Coast District, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, 26 FLRA 63, Proposal 8 [NN]
3. The Panama Canal Commission to provide free telephone service at employee residences. Maritime/Metal Trades Council, 26 FLRA 140, Proposal 4 (second sentence) [NN]
4. Employees would have the right to receive certain entitlement beyond resignation. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 26 [NN]
5. Payment of special incentive differentials to employees stationed at hardship posts. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 37 (first sentence) [NN]
6. Entitling employees on temporary duty at hardship posts to differential and determining the posts to be designated for special incentive pay through negotiation. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 37 (second sentence) [N]
7. Two round trips per year at government expense for each dependent attending college. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 42 [NN]
8. Entitling employees remaining overseas after retirement to tuition–free education for their dependents. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 27 FLRA 492, Proposal 43 [NN]
9. Seeking additional basic compensation for an employee's assigned work because an agency increased its length. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 628, Proposal 7k [NN]
10. Agency to grant benefits to part–time employees to the extent allowable under law and Government–wide regulation. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 56 [N]
11. Rates of pay will be in general accord with pay schedules for similar positions in comparable school systems as determined by applicable Federal law and regulations. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1815, 29 FLRA 1447, Provision 3 [N]
12. Assuring that the objectives of title 20, United States Code, section 241(e), requiring that per pupil costs not exceed those expended for free public education in comparable communities in the state, is attained. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1815, 29 FLRA 1447, Provision 5 [N]
13. Dealing with pay and/or money-related fringe benefits. Fort Bragg Association of Educators, NEA, 30 FLRA 508, Proposals 10 – 16, 18 – 22, 24, 25, 27 – 31, and 44 [N]
14. Requiring negotiation of compensation and health benefits. AFGE, Local 3295, 47 FLRA 884, Proposals 1 and 4 [NN]. Upheld in American Federation of Government Employees v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 46 F.3d 73 (D.C. Cir. 1995).
15. Requiring the agency to pay the entire amount of its nonappropriated fund (NAP) employees’ health insurance premiums. AFGE, Local 3240, 58 FLRA 696, Proposal 1 [NN, LAW]
16. Requiring the agency to offer NAP employees the option to enroll in the Blue Choice Health Benefit Plan, which is not currently offered by the agency, and to pay the entire cost of the premiums for its NAP employees who choose to participate in that plan. AFGE, Local 3240, 58 FLRA 696, Proposal 2 [NN, LAW]

Insurance/Pension

1. Life insurance at no cost to employees, employer–paid medical and dental insurance, and long term disability income protection. Fort Bragg Unit of North Carolina Association of Educators, National Education Association, 12 FLRA 519, Proposals 14, 17, and 18 [NN]
2. Agency paid life insurance. International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, 13 FLRA 508, Proposal 21 [NN]
3. Allowing newly recruited pilots, including those who are not citizens, to elect or continue coverage under the M.M.& P. Offshore Pension Plan. International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, 13 FLRA 508, Proposal 17 [NN]
4. Agency to pay the deductible costs associated with medical insurance. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3804, 21 FLRA 870, Proposal 1 [NN]
5. Agency to absorb up to 75% of the cost of health insurance before passing on to employees increased costs. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1897, 24 FLRA 377 [N]
6. Agency to absorb 75% of the cost of health, life and AD&D insurance. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 997, 24 FLRA 475 [N]
7. Agency to pay the full cost of coverage in a dental insurance program for unit employees and providing for coverage in a group insurance plan. SEIU, Local 556, AFL–CIO, 25 FLRA 796, Proposals 1 and 2 [N]. Remanded in Pearl Harbor Navy Exchange v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 841 F.2d 1128 (9th Cir. 1988). On remand, SEIU, Local 556, AFL–CIO, 37 FLRA 320 [N]
8. Agency to continue hospitalization and life insurance premiums for employees on family leave. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1770, 28 FLRA 493, Provision 9 (section g) [N]
9. Health insurance and basic life insurance without charge to employees. Fort Stewart (Georgia) Association of Educators, 28 FLRA 547, Proposal 1 (sections L and M) [NN]
10. Continuing all health benefits currently accruing to employee even though not specifically referred to in the negotiated agreement and ensuring that all subsequent miscellaneous benefits bestowed on the Federal service would also be received by unit employees. Fort Stewart (Georgia) Association of Educators, 28 FLRA 547, Proposal 1 (sections N and O) [N]
11. Agency to provide the union with an opportunity to negotiate over changes in employee benefits, including money-related benefits, which the agency initiates at its discretion in the future. NTEU, Chapter 207, 28 FLRA 738 [N]. Upheld in Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 927 F. 2d 1257 (D.C. Cir. 1991).
12. Access to and payment for health and dental care to the maximum extent permitted by law. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 11 [N]
13. Crediting of a full year’s employment for retirement credit if the employee worked no more than 95 days. Overseas Education Association, Inc., 29 FLRA 734, Proposal 30 [NN]
14. Covering of employees by a Temporary Disability insurance plan at no cost to the employees, such plan being in conformance with Hawaii laws governing such plans. SEIU, Local 556, AFL–CIO, 29 FLRA 1553, Proposal 3 [N]
15. Agency to provide, free of cost to employees, an accidental death and dismemberment policy and a medical insurance plan or supplemental medical policy. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL–CIO, Local 1245, 31 FLRA 1002, Proposals 1 and 2 [NN]
16. Agency to absorb the entire 19–percent increase in the cost of nonappropriated fund employee health benefits insurance premiums and reimburse nonappropriated fund employees for the portion of that increase that they have paid since its implementation in January 1987. AFGE, Local 1857, 36 FLRA 894, Proposals 1 and 2 [N]
17. Initiate a change in the percentage of each bargaining unit employee's health insurance premium paid by the agency. AFGE, 38 FLRA 282, Proposals 1, 2 and 3 [N]
18. Increase the percentage of employee health insurance premiums paid by the agency for a unit of nonappropriated fund employees. NAGE, Local R7–72, 38 FLRA 1223 [N]
19. Medical and dental services rendered by the agency shall be free and requiring the agency to grant excused absence when employees receive such health care services. NAGE, Local R1–109, 47 FLRA 651 [N]
20. Requiring the agency to increase its contribution to dental and optical insurance plans administered by the union for bargaining unit employees. Antilles Consolidated Education Association, 56 FLRA 664 [N]

Incentive Pay

1. Setting the rate of incentive pay and permitting incentive pay for time an employee is taking paid leave. NTEU, 14 FLRA 463, Proposals 5 and 6 [NN]. Reversed in NTEU v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 793 F.2d 371 (D.C. Cir. 1986). On remand, NTEU, 27 FLRA 132 [N]
2. The commission rate paid to automotive mechanics at Fort Hood and Carswell Air Force Base not be reduced from 60 percent to 40 percent but remain at 60 percent. AFGE, AFL–CIO, 32 FLRA 591 [NN]
3. Seeking to continue a productivity gainsharing program that had been run by the agency as a six–month test. NAGE, Local R14–52, 41 FLRA 1057 [N]. Reversed and remanded in Red River Army Depot v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 977 F.2d 1490 (D.C. Cir. 1992). On remand, NAGE, Local R14–52, 48 FLRA 1198 [N]