Alternative Dispute Resolution
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) at the FLRA is a collection of informal methods used by a neutral person to help prevent and solve problems that often arise during litigation. ADR practitioners at the FLRA help parties engage more constructively to develop interest-based solutions to pending negotiability appeals, arbitration exceptions, impasse bargaining disputes, unfair-labor-practice cases, and representation cases.
ADR methods used by various components of the FLRA can include facilitation, mediation, mediation-arbitration (med-arb), fact finding, early neutral evaluation, and some forms of training.
The FLRA has integrated ADR into virtually all of its processes, and it has expanded significantly its training, outreach, and facilitation activities. All components of the FLRA help parties to resolve disputes, using consensus decision-making and other ADR techniques, to reduce unnecessary litigation and its related costs.
Office of the General Counsel ADR
The OGC also provides case-related ADR services, as set forth on the OGC's ADR page, and Statutory Training on the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, as well as Representation case-handling training, as set forth on the Training page.
The Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP) ADR
FSIP uses ADR techniques in resolving bargaining impasses.
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