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11:0129(33)NG
The decision of the Authority follows:
11 FLRA No. 33 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 1380 Union and DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY NAVAL COASTAL SYSTEMS CENTER PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA Agency Case No. O-NG-519 DECISION AND ORDER ON NEGOTIABILITY ISSUE The petition for review in this case comes before the Authority pursuant to section 7105(a)(2)(E) of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (the Statute), and raises issued relating to the negotiability of the following Union proposal. An employee called back to work outside his/her normal shift will be paid a minimum of four (4) hours and will only be required to work on the emergency for which he/she was called back. Upon careful consideration of the entire record, including the parties' contentions, the Authority makes the following determination. Based on the language of the proposal and the uncontested allegation of the Agency, the Authority concludes that the first portion of the proposal would require that an employee who is called back to work be paid for a minimum of four hours regardless of whether the employee performs work for those four hours. In this respect, it is not materially different from Union Proposal 3 in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 2080, AFL-CIO-CLC and Department of the Army, U.S. Corps of Engineer, Nashville, Tennessee, 10 FLRA No. 43 (1982). In that decision, the Authority determined that as 5 U.S.C. 5542(b)(1) with respect to GS employees, and 5 CFR 532.503(c) with respect to WG employees, set a maximum time of two hours that such employees may be paid callback overtime in the absence of the performance of work, a proposal providing for four hours of call back overtime pay was outside the duty to bargain. Thus, for the reasons detailed in U.S. Corps of Engineers, the first portion of the Union's proposal herein is outside the duty to bargain. Further, as the second portion of the Union's proposal expressly would limit management's right to assign particular duties during callback overtime to duties related to the emergency situation necessitating the overtime, it directly interferes with the Agency's right "to assign work" pursuant to section 7106(a)(2)(B) of the Statute and is therefore outside the duty to bargain. International Association of Fire Fighters, Local F-61 and Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 3 FLRA 437, 440-441 (1980). Accordingly, pursuant to section 2424.10 of the Authority's Rules and Regulations, IT IS ORDERED that the Union's petition for review be, and it hereby is, dismissed. Issued, Washington, D.C., January 28, 1983 Ronald W. Haughton, Chairman Henry B. Frazier III, Member Leon B. Applewhaite, Member FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY