SETTLEMENT UPDATE;
The Agency has began releasing, on a staggered basis, $654.00 to employees included in this grievance settlement effective May 2016.
Click below to Read the Final IVOLSettlement Agreement between AFGE and Social Security Administration.
Know Your Contract
Well it is almost time for your FY 2015 final rating and just in case you did not know you have the option of “tooting-your-own-horn”. Sometimes your manager might not remember all the things you have done over the last twelve (12) months, so why not remind them…
Our AFGE/SSA National Agreement states:
Article 21, Section 6. G –Optional Employee Self-Assessment
“Employees will be provided the option of completing an end-of-cycle self-assessment, highlighting their accomplishments relating to the performance plan. Employees, who wish to submit a self-assessment,must do so no later than 10 days after the end of their appraisal period. A reasonable amount of time will be provided for this activity. Self-assessments should be maintained in the SSA-7B Extension File or electronic equivalent. Management will inform employees of the above self-assessment option fifteen (15) days prior to the end of the appraisal period.”
Deadline: Saturday October 10, 2015, if your appraisal year ends 9/30/2015
NOTE: All appraisals will not end on 09/30/2015.
Employees who are union representatives use official time to help address labor-management issues, and to aid employees in cases of alleged discrimination or retaliation, and disciplinary actions. Critics charge that official time is too expensive, while labor groups maintain that it saves time and money by avoiding litigation and time-consuming procedural avenues for settling disputes.
“Federal unions are legally required to provide full representation to all members of a bargaining unit, whether or not the worker elects to pay voluntary union dues,” Junemann wrote. “In exchange for being forced to provide representation to dues payers and non-dues payers alike, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 permits federal unions to bargain official time arrangements to the mutual benefit of labor and management.”
AFGE Local 1395 would like to remind our members of our MOU with the agency concerning Religious Compensation:
