Procedures: timeliness and specificity; continuing violations; arbitrability; contractual exclusions; group grievances
Promotions: career ladder; merit promotion; accretion-of-duties; qualifications; preselection; temporary promotions; classification issues; burdens of proof; remedies; priority consideration
Discipline and adverse action: procedures; indefinite suspensions; just cause; agency misconduct investigations and investigatory protections; search and seizure; disciplinary nexus; penalties; progressive and disparate discipline; reprisal; insubordination; workplace violence; discourtesy
Reduction in Force: assignment rights; bump and retreat
Compensation and work assignments: position descriptions; classification issues; scheduling and workweek; overtime assignments and entitlements; exemption status environmental differential and hazard pay
Discrimination and reprisal: burdens of proof; disability; accommodation; Equal Pay Act; hostile work environment
Remedies: back pay; other relief
Contract interpretation and dispute resolution: contract interpretation principles; resolution of ambiguities; evidentiary standards; hearsay; burdens of proof; res judicata; the role of precedent; past practice; interest arbitration principles; settlement and mediation; the collective-bargaining process; impasse resolution
