Case: Labor Arbitration/Work Schedules (Arb.)

Arbitrator Perry A. Zirkel ruled that the National Park Service’s implementation of a 50% in-office telework policy for bargaining unit employees violated the collective bargaining agreement with the NTEU, and constituted an unfair labor practice. The National Park Service argued that telework was not an entitlement under the CBA and that its updated policy was within its retained management rights under the CBA and federal law. However, Arbitrator Zirkel found that telework was, in fact, guaranteed for bargaining unit employees up to three days per five-day work week, and that this action was an unlawful unilateral change to the term ...