VSEA Files ULPs With Vermont Labor Relations Board, Challenging The Department Of Human Resources’ & Judiciary’s Misuse of Temps
VSEA filed two unfair labor practice (ULP) charges this week with the Vermont Labor Relations Board (VLRB).
The first ULP asks the Board to find that the Department of Human Resources (DHR) misclassified employees as temporary workers in violation of the law. The filing also seeks review of the Commissioner’s approval of waivers permitting managers across state government to retain temporary workers past a statutorily imposed 1,280 hours-worked-in-a-given-year cap. Records that VSEA received through a Freedom of Information Request show that the DHR Commissioner is granting waivers to the cap without the required evidence there is a bona fide emergency, as mandated by law. Instead, the waivers are being granted merely to “fill government functions that were constant and ongoing.” VSEA contends that the Commissioner’s refusal to reconsider “has the intent and effect of systematically misclassifying employees as temporary employees in violation of existing law…”
