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Job Opportunities with the FLRA

The majority of employees at the FLRA are Attorneys or Labor Relations Specialists. However, the work varies among the different offices:

• Staff in the Offices of the Authority's Members are responsible for reviewing and resolving cases arising under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, including arbitration appeals, negotiability disputes, representation cases, and unfair labor practice cases. Staff members assist the parties with alternative dispute resolution services. Staff review and analyze the record in pending cases and provide written recommendations to the Members.
  
  
• Collaboration and Dispute Resolution program staff members develop and conduct training, facilitate partnership efforts, assist parties in alternative dispute resolution and advise unions and management on issues affecting labor-management cooperation and alternative dispute resolution throughout the Federal Government.
  
  
• Office of the Solicitor staff members represent the FLRA in judicial proceedings, including petitions for review or enforcement of FLRA orders filed in US Circuit Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. They also represent the FLRA in administrative litigation cases filed in US District Courts.
  
  
• Office of Administrative Law Judges staff ensure the full, fair and expeditious consideration and resolution of unfair labor practice cases; and conduct formal hearings and issue initial decisions and orders. The Office also assists parties to reach voluntary settlements of their disputes prior to the start of formal hearings when the parties have indicated an interest in exploring resolution without resorting to litigation.
  
  
•  Staff members of the Office of the General Counsel Regional Offices provide parties with three distinct services. They investigate, litigate, and assist in resolving ULP cases; serve as hearing officers, draft decisions and orders, and conduct elections in representation cases; and provide the parties with alternative dispute resolution services which may involve utilizing specialized skills to facilitate, intervene, train, and educate the parties. This work affords Regional Office employees the opportunity to practice labor law by researching and analyzing legal issues and preparing legal decisional and other documents, as well as practicing labor relations by working in person with parties and their representatives in resolving labor-management relations disputes and improving relationships.
  
  
• Federal Service Impasses Panel staff assist Federal agencies and labor organizations to resolve negotiation impasses. They investigate cases, draft advice memoranda, engage in face-to-face and telephone dispute resolution conferences, analyze parties' written submissions and oral positions, and provide written recommendations to the Panel for resolving disputes.

• These staff prepare reports, conduct studies, and other resource management and mission-related activities such as program analysis; budget formulation; recruitment, and internal management plans; and information technology.

• Office Managers are responsible for providing services essential to the effective accomplishment of the office's workload, such as arranging for office supplies and equipment; making travel arrangements; keeping time and attendance records; and tracking budget expenditures.
  
  
• Paralegal Specialists perform legal research such as conducting research of statutes, legal opinions, legal texts, precedential cases, and other source materials which may bear on the legal issues involved; and assist in preparing motions and routine litigation documents.
  
  
• Legal Assistants review and process complaints and notices of hearings, requests for subpoenas, post-hearing briefs, Orders and other pertinent legal documents; or may perform legal research, search legal opinions, legal texts, precedent cases and other source materials that bear on the legal issues involved. Other Legal Assistants input case information into a case tracking system.
  
  
• Student Assistants are provided practical work experience which supplements their education and readies them for the permanent work force.

• Senior Executives direct the work of assigned organizational units, determine and monitor progress toward organizational goals, and exercise policy-making, policy-determining, or other executive functions.
  
  
• Administrative Law Judges provide for the full, fair and expeditious consideration and resolution of unfair labor practice and other matters by conducting formal hearings and issuing decisions and orders in cases which come before them.