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CLASSIFICATION

CLASSIFICATION . . . POSITION UPGRADES

Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland and SSA General Committee, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Case No. 01 FSIP 130, August 13, 2001 (Release No. 442).

The AGENCY proposed that the Panel order the Union to withdraw its proposal on classification review for position upgrades.

The UNION proposed that the parties form a joint workgroup within a year, with an equal number of Agency and Union participants, to review the possibility of upgrading employees' positions as a consequence of their assignments to perform work under a management initiated E-mail pilot program.

The PANEL ordered, as a compromise, the parties to have a one-time discussion of the possibility of position upgrades during the second five-month briefing that they have already mutually agreed to hold on the E-mail pilot.