Court Opinion

ID: 9479276
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:13:25.376534+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:55.543080
License: Public Domain

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
Judge Wilkinson has demonstrated persuasively in Sections I and II of his opinion that absent an express congressional mandate to the contrary, matters of employee compensation are not, and were never intended to be, negotiable under the Civil Service Reform Act. Accordingly, I join in these portions of the opinion and concur in the denial of enforcement of the FLRA s bargaining order.
However, I cannot join in Section III of the opinion which discusses alternative grounds for reversing the FLRA, namely the budgetary rights issue under § 7106(a)(1) of the Civil Service Reform Act and the possible conflict between the union’s salary proposal and § 161(d) of the Atomic Energy Act. My decision to not join in this portion of the opinion in no way reflects my views on the merits of these issues. Rather, because our determination that matters are nonnegotiable conclusively resolves the dispute in this case, I see no need to reach these other issues.