Case: Labor Arbitration/Work Schedules (Arb.)

The Federal Aviation Administration did not violate its collective bargaining agreement or agency rules when a manager, citing a diminishing workload, altered the grievant’s Maxiflex schedule, which allowed her to make up time by working outside core hours so long as she worked 80 hours in a biweekly pay period, arbitrator Mark D. Keyl ruled. Maxiflex, he found, is part of an agency-wide alternative work schedule policy that is voluntary, states that employee flexibility “must be tempered with management’s right and responsibility to ensure proper office coverage,” and further provides that “AWS is a privilege, not an entitlement.” The agency’s ...