Classification Process  |  Position Description

1. Seeking to establish the timing of a facility reclassification action. PATCO, AFL–CIO, 4 FLRA 232, Proposal III [N]
2. Allowing the union to have a representative on the Professional Standards Boards and the Position Management Committee. NFFE, Local 1431, 9 FLRA 998 [NN]
3. Granting the union the right to representation on the Position Management Committee. NFFE, Local 1745, 11 FLRA 417 [NN]
4. Employee’s right to union representation in meetings with management involving classification matters, including desk audits. AFSCME, AFL–CIO, Local 2027, 12 FLRA 643, Proposal 1 [N]
5. Union representation during classification reviews. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 32, 15 FLRA 825, Proposal 1 [N]
6. One union observer on the Position Management Committee. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 2094, 22 FLRA 710, Proposal 2 [NN]
7. Union representation during classification audits. NFFE, Local 2052, 30 FLRA 797, Proposal 12 [N]
8. Employees may be non–competitively promoted when a promotion results from the upgrading of a position without sufficient change in the duties and responsibilities due to issuance of new classification standards or the correction of an initial classification error. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 2761, 32 FLRA 1006, Provision 7 [NN]
9. Employee assigned to the order desk to receive the pay of an assistant foreman. IAMAW, AFL–CIO, 33 FLRA 711, Proposal 13 [NN]
10. Requiring the agency to extend the career ladder target grade of the union president to GS–15. NAGE, Local R1–144, Federal Union of Scientists and Engineers, 42 FLRA 1285, Proposal 4 [NN]
11. Concerning the performance of work that is outside of an employee’s classification. IBEW, AFL–CIO, Local 1245, 43 FLRA 1155, Proposal 6 [N]
12. 30 GS–5 firefighter positions will be classified at the GS–6 level and, if any remaining GS–5 firefighters are required to perform GS–6 duties, the agency will also reclassify those positions. NAGE, Local R12–33, 45 FLRA 802 [NN]
13. Preventing the agency from reclassifying positions unless the employees of those positions consent. NFFE, Local 1482, 45 FLRA 1199 [NN]
14. Providing for a joint review of the classification of bargaining unit positions. Treasury, AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3295, 47 FLRA 884, Proposal 1, Section 6 (first sentence) [N]
15. Providing for arbitration of classification disputes. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 3295, 47 FLRA 884, Proposal 1, Section 6 (second and third sentences) [NN]
16. The determination of the position description, title, series and grade for a particular position. IFPTE, AFL–CIO, Local 1, 52 FLRA 1341 [NN, LAW]
17. Identifying the series, 5803, and the grade, 10, into which the specified mechanic positions would be placed. NAGE, Local R5–168, 53 FLRA 1622 [NN, (a)(14)(B)]
18. Requiring the agency to establish job titles and grades 6 months after the agency reorganization, and maintain current job titles and grades during the interim period. NAGE, Local R14–23, 54 FLRA 1302, Proposal 2 (second sentence) [NN, LAW]. Upheld in National Association of Government Employees, Local R14-23 v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, No. 98-1520 (D.C. Cir. 1999).
19. Requiring the agency to classify the four GS–11 Longshore Workers Compensation Claims Examiners (LSCEs) as a specified series (991) and grade (12). AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 948, 55 FLRA 582, Proposal 1 [NN, LAW]
20. Requiring the agency to do three things:   1) increase the NAs’ grades; 2) change their job description to reflect the change in duties and pay; and 3) change the title of the NA position to nursing technician. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1985, 55 FLRA 1145, Proposal 2 [NN, LAW]
21. Requiring management to classify the total supply item manager as a GS–6/7. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 2031, 56 FLRA 32, Proposal 2(b) [NN, LAW]
22. Requiring management to reclassify the supply technician currently located in the Supply Processing and Distribution Section from a GS–5 position to a GS–6/7 item manager position. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 2031, 56 FLRA 32, Proposal 2(c) [NN, LAW]
23. Requiring management to transfer the two supply technicians GS–5 positions in Supply Processing and Distribution Section to Material Management Section, and to reclassify them as GS–6/7 total support item manager positions. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 2031, 56 FLRA 32, Proposal 3(a) [NN, LAW]
24. Reclassifying Hazardous Waste Disposers (HWDs) who possess, or obtain in the future, a Class C Commercial Drivers License (CDL) from WG–6 to WG–7. Tidewater Virginia Federal Employees Metal Trades Council, 58 FLRA 561 [NN, LAW]
25. Requiring the agency to allow employees, who are not at the journeyman level at the time the conversion becomes effective, to retain their two–grade progression until they reach that level, which is the highest grade in the career ladder progression. NTEU, Chapter 82, 59 FLRA 627 [NN, LAW]

Position Description

1. Preventing the agency from expanding the work regularly required of the incumbent of a position by assigning work that is not reasonably related to the duties spelled out in the position description under the guise of the general phrase “other related duties as assigned.” AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1999, 2 FLRA 153, Proposal II [N]
2. Duties of an employee’s position to be modified to accommodate illness/injury. NFFE, Local 1624, 3 FLRA 142 [NN]
3. Union and affected employees receive amended position description (PD) four weeks before PD is implemented. NTEU, 6 FLRA 508, Proposal III [N]
4. Agency to avoid assigning duties to an employee that are not specified in or reasonably related to the employee’s position description unless temporarily required by the temporary needs of the Service. AFGE, AFL–CIO, National INS Council, 8 FLRA 347, Proposal 14 [N]
5. Preventing management from making any changes in PD of professional employees that did not reflect professional levels of work. NFFE, Local 1497, 9 FLRA 151, Proposal 1 [NN]
6. Employees will receive instructions and make reports through established channels as described in pertinent position descriptions. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1858, 10 FLRA 440, Proposal 2 (second sentence) [N]
7. Connecting the work assigned to the position description. NTEU, 13 FLRA 48, Proposal 2 [N]
8. Precluding management from assigning work unrelated to an employee’s position description under certain circumstances. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Mint Council 157, 19 FLRA 640, Proposal 2 [NN]
9. Concerning the addition of Indian materials to position descriptions. Federal Federation of Federal Employees, 22 FLRA 539, Proposals 9 and 10 [NN]
10. Prohibiting the agency from changing position descriptions for a specified period. NAGE, Federal Union of Scientists and Engineers, 23 FLRA 360, Proposal 1 [NN]
11. Employees not to be required to recruit unless their position descriptions included recruiting. NAGE, SEIU, AFL–CIO, 27 FLRA 801, Proposal 3 [N]
12. Agency to ensure, insofar as possible, that employees do not perform duties that are inappropriate to their positions and qualifications. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1815, 28 FLRA 1172, Provision 8 [NN]
13. Statement as to assignment to be incorporated in the technicians’ position description. Association of Civilian Technicians, Pennsylvania State Council, 29 FLRA 1292, Proposal 6 [N]
14. Requiring consistency between position descriptions and performance elements. NTEU, 42 FLRA 964, Provision 5, Section 3(A)(3) [N]
15. Requiring the agency to revise the position description of the union president to include references to the union activity and use this in appraising performance. NAGE, Local R1–144, Federal Union of Scientists and Engineers, 42 FLRA 1285, Proposal 1 [NN]
16. Requiring the agency to minimally qualify employees for positions in a nuclear program, based on seniority or a past determination of qualifications, prior to implementing a proposed change in job descriptions. Federal Employees Metal Trades Council of Charleston, 44 FLRA 683, Proposal 1 [NN]
17. Management should not assign firefighters duties that are outside of their position description or that are unrelated to their duties or regular field of work. NFFE, Local 1214, 45 FLRA 11121, Proposal 2 [NN]
18. Requiring the supervisor to discuss with employees any changes to their position descriptions when the changes are made. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1345, 48 FLRA 168, Proposal 1 (first sentence) [N]
19. Precluding the agency from assigning any work not contained in an employee’s position description. AFGE, AFL–CIO, Local 1345, 48 FLRA 168, Proposal 1 (fifth sentence) [NN, (a)(2)(B)]
20. A specific job description form would be used as the document to capture agreements during the parties’ negotiations over a re–organization. IFPTE, AFL–CIO, Local 49, 51 FLRA 3 [N]
21. Requiring the parties to use a particular agency job description form (Department of Army Form 374, June 1, 1976) to document certain agreements reached during negotiations over a re–organization. IFPTE, AFL–CIO, Local 49, 51 FLRA 526 [N]
22. The position descriptions for all of the project managers will state that the positions are interdisciplinary. IFPTE, AFL–CIO, Local 49, 52 FLRA 665 [NN, (a)(2)(c)]
23. Requiring the agency to include any military training duty assigned as work in a technician’s position description, with notice to the union prior to such inclusion and an opportunity to discuss the inclusion with technicians. ACT, Wichita Air Capitol Chapter, 58 FLRA 28 [NN, LAW]. Reversed in Association of Civilian Technicians, Wichita Air Capitol Chapter v. FLRA, 360 F.3d 195 (D.C. Cir. 2004).
24. Requiring the Agency to amend position descriptions if duties assigned are not captured by the position descriptions. NAGE, Local R1–100, 61 FLRA 480, Proposal 1 [NN, (a)(2)(B)]