Mr. Geiss is the Chief, Reports and Disclosure Section, Office of Labor-Management Standards, Employment Standards Administration at the Department of Labor. He joined the Labor Department as the Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for the Office of the American Workplace, after working 12 years as the Chief of Staff to Congressman William D. Ford of Michigan. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Geiss worked on many issues related to labor-management cooperation, as well as educational programs directed at the workforce of the 21st century. The Panel assists in resolving impasses arising from collective bargaining over conditions of employment affecting Foreign Service personnel in the State Department, the U.S. Information Agency, the Agency for International Development, and the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce. The Panel must be composed of two members of the Foreign Service, one member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel, one individual employed by the Department of Labor, and one public member who does not hold any other office or position in the Government.
All members serve on a part-time basis.