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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does BVA care when you do your work? For example, if my kid has a class trip on a weekday and I want to go, but I’m willing to work a day on the weekend to keep on track and meet 40 hrs per week, does anyone care? Or are you expected to be behind the computer at set times?[/quote]

I'm not sure what these people are talking about. This kind of thing happens all the time.

The key is to set your work schedule so you have some flex time built in. If you work a 40 hour week over four days, that leaves one weekday as your flex day or benefit day as some call it.  You are off that day so you can do what you want and are not expected to be working.  For most people that is Friday, but it can be whatever day you choose.  So, If little suzy has a field trip on Wednesday and you want to go, all you would need to do is email your supervisor and say "My benefit day is Friday, but little Suzy has a field trip on Wednesday.  Do you mind if I take my benefit day Wednesday and work on Friday instead?"  and, absent some very odd reasons, your supervisor will respond and say "Sure, have fun!"  It is quite common at the Board.  [/quote]

You are talking about flex hours during the week. What you describe is generally permissible at the Board and at many other agencies. The poster, however, wants to know whether she can make up work hours on the weekend so that she can go on the field trips during the week. The answer is no.[/quote]

You can work on weekend if you aren’t stupid about it. [b]I was told not to send emails or submit work for review on the weekend.[/b]

You can work all you want, no one is going to check what you’re doing and when in CaseFlow. Just don’t submit or send emails - bank your work and hit submit during the work week. And the only reason anyone cares is because of the union, which makes a big stink about working hours.   [/quote]

Re: "I was told not to send emails or submit work for review on the weekend."

You make that seem like a good thing.

The reason why the union makes a big stink about working hours is because many attorneys at the Board have to work in excess of 40 hours a week to meet the quota. I know many attorneys who work on average 50-60 hours a week to meet the weekly production standard. By working unpaid overtime and failing to account for these hours, these attorneys really screw themselves and their colleagues over because management can claim that the quota is reasonable and attainable within 40 hours a week when in reality it is not (unless you're assigned to a nice judge and/or one with a high grant rate). That's the problem that the union tried to address in demanding that management account for the work hours of Board attorneys.[/quote]

All true things.  The Board management puts attorneys in a bad spot.  If you refuse to work unpaid overtime, a lot of people will be fired because they don't meet the quota. If you work unpaid overtime and management winks and nods and pretends it didn't happen, you have a better chance of keeping your job, but management gets to pretend that the quota is fair.  [/quote]

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