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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HHS union receivable a favorable decision on their telework arbitration today. Any idea when we will hear a decision on ours? [/quote]

No one has anyway of knowing, even the people directly involved. Could be tomorrow, it could be months.

It’ll be interesting to see if the arbitrator cites the HHS or any other recent decisions, but who know if their contracts have similar language to the SEC’s.[/quote]

It doesnt work that way, the arbitrations for other agencies are not precedent and involve different contracts so they won't be cited by the arbitrator.

It looks like SEC used the same frivolous arguments that HHS used.  I wonder if OPM gave them that game plan or if that is the best they could come up with.  [/quote]

It absolutely can work that way, and your own post shows why.  You claim (although I’m not sure that’s true) that HHS and the SEC raised the same arguments, so one person rejecting the argument might be instructive to another person looking at the issue.

It’s definitely not binding precedent and the arbitrator can give it whatever weight (including none) he wants.

You are right the contracts could be different and the more different they are the less instructive the HHS opinion is do the SEC.[/quote]

It might be instructive, but it won't be cited which is what I was responding to.  I actually don't think there will be much that is new in there because NTEU represents both agencies so I assume they are coordinating their arguments across the various arbitrations.  I also assume OPM is providing some level of guidance to the agencies as to the arguments they can present similar to what they are including in the various CHCO memos.[/quote]

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