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59 FLRA No. 31
U. S. Dept. of Energy, Rocky Flat Field Office, Golden, Colorado and AFGE, Local 1103 (Allen, Arbitrator) 0-AR-3651 (Decided September 23, 2003)
The Arbitrator found that the Agency did not violate the parties' agreement by rescinding its approval of the grievants' training requests or by failing to reimburse one of the grievants for training costs. However, the Arbitrator found that the Agency failed to comply with an Administrative Judge's decision finding that the grievants were not indebted to the Agency for training costs already paid by the Agency. As a remedy, the Arbitrator ordered the Agency to cease its collection efforts against the grievants. The Authority concluded that the award was not deficient and denied the Agency's exceptions.