Failure to properly deal with impact bargaining provides the basis for the overwhelming majority of ULP charges and findings, year-in and year-out. And the case law on which impact bargaining rests is complex, complicated, and confusing. This course clarifies and organizes everything a labor relations practitioner needs to know about impact bargaining, and backs up the information with numerous case citations and examples drawn from actual cases.

After completing this course, you'll have learned how to determine:

• If a matter is "covered"
• When an agency can claim a proposal isn't negotiable and what happens next
• Whether a request to bargain was done in a "timely manner" according to the FLRA

Plus, you'll be able to identify the:

• Four basic steps to I&I bargaining
• Statutory basis of impact bargaining
• Elements necessary to give rise to an impact bargaining obligation
• Required elements of an agency notice of intended action and union request to bargain
• Parties' rights and obligations in impasse situations