With its one-of-a-kind approach to digesting arbitration awards by major topics and keying each award to the issuing arbitrator, Principles allows practitioners to easily research arbitrator’s awards to assist in case preparation and arbitrator selection. Principles of Arbitration also includes an index that cross-references arbitrators to the awards they have issued. Practitioners rely on this book to learn the experience level of the arbitrator they are considering for selection, to gain better insight on how that arbitrator has ruled on similar issues, and to research awards by that arbitrator or others arbitrators.

Major topics include:

• Nature of Arbitration
• Governing Law for Arbitrators — FLRA decisions, arbitration awards
• Collective Bargaining Agreement — formation, effect, role of external law
• Arbitrability — as a threshold issue, statutory jurisdiction, election of remedies, statutory exclusions, classification disputes, probationers and seasonal workers
• Grievances — content/purpose, exclusive representation, specificity, presentation of grievances, procedural errors, amendment, ripeness, mootness, timeliness
• Hearings — bifurcation to consider procedural or arbitrability issues, summary judgement, defining the issue, discovery, burdens of proof, format, timing, evidence, bench decisions
• Arbitrator’s Role — neutrality
• Management Rights — fiscal limitations
• Contract Interpretation — negotiability issues, burden of proof, good faith, parties’ intent, clear and plain language controls, ambiguous language, avoidance of forfeiture, bargaining history, parole evidence, past practice, mutual mistake, estoppel, statutory and regulatory interpretation
• Substantive Topics Commonly Encountered — compensatory issues, performance assessment and performance-based actions, promotion, assignment of work, work schedules, leave, RIF, debt collection, discipline, due process, penalty assessment, discrimination, reprisal and retaliation, bargaining, Privacy Act violations, unfair labor practices, union rights and obligations, union dues deductions, cost of arbitration
• Settlements — last chance agreements, general contract principles, settlements as evidence
• Correction, Clarification of Arbitration Awards; Retention of Jurisdiction; Enforcement
• Remedies, Counsel Fees & Damages — back pay, accountings, interest, liquidated and compensatory damages, failure to negotiate, non-traditional remedies, counsel fee awards, costs
• Legal Research in Federal Sector Arbitration

Also included are a detailed table of contents, table of cases, and index of arbitrators. Available as a softcover book and/or a PDF file with many useful features delivered on a CD-ROM, USB Flash Drive, or download. Hyperlinks allow the reader to move quickly between the Table of Contents and Index of Arbitrators and the corresponding portions of the text. Internal hyperlinks serve as a cross-reference feature within the text.

Citations are to the Cyberfeds© database. cyberfeds.com

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