Do you have an issue/concern?

How can you get answers?

 

Per the 2022 National Agreement employees can ask for time to meet with NTEU stewards for help.

 

Please reach out to any steward (attach a list) for their availability.  Once you have their availability, send an email stating you would like to meet with NTEU Steward "name" and they are available on this day at this time.

 

Management will then send an email to systems to get you approved time to meet with us.

 

 

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Meeting Agenda

April 27th, 2021

 

Big No-No! Filing for a Refund From Saint Louis City - We’ve had a lot of questions regarding telework employees who don’t live in St. Louis City about the filing of city returns for refunds. Evidently, some employees who work in the RAY Building have been doing this in the past (which isn’t legal).  It never has been and it isn’t this year. The City of Saint Louis issued a reminder this year (see Earnings Tax button below) because of all the traffic (both phone and walk-in) they were getting over this issue. As you can see on their website, the form has not changed.

 

As long as your POD is in the City of St. Louis, you are required to pay the City Tax. If you previously filed and received a refund this could be considered collecting money from a government agency - to which you were not entitled. This can lead to disciplinary action up to and including removal. The IRS has very few (if any) permanent Teleworkers. We had 3 in our jurisdiction at one time. It was over a decade ago when our Columbia office closed. Rather than making those few employees drive over 100 miles to the closest POD, they were allowed the status of “Home as POD.”

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The contract is currently open and we are negotiating that status for you in Article 50 (stay tuned). No other employees have been allowed that status. We wanted to make you aware of this because we didn’t previously know of anyone filing these kinds of returns. My fear is with all the other businesses that have their employees teleworking, it may trigger an audit, especially with an all-new staff, starting from the Mayor’s office ...on down.

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- Pam

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Meeting Agenda

November 27th, 2018

 

Favorable Arbitration Decision - We recently received a favorable arbitration decision regarding a grievance on the IRS’ decision to deny a member’s performance award for the FY 2016 rating period on the basis of admitted misconduct in an Alternative Discipline Agreement.  

 

NTEU asserted that the IRS violated Article 18, Section 1.C. of the National Agreement when it denied the performance award.  Article 18, Section 1.C. and Side Letters provide that an employee who “is the subject of a conduct investigation or has been the subject of a disciplinary action” will not be denied a performance award unless the denial “is necessary to protect the integrity of the Service.”  The arbitrator found the denial was not necessary to protect the integrity of the service, in part, because the agency presented no evidence that the public knew or could know of the misconduct.

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Senate Finance Committee introduced S. 3246, the “Taxpayer First Act,” which would reform certain administrative practices at the IRS - This new legislation does not include any provisions to alter employee performance management systems, restrict frontline employee awards, or rollback employee due process and representation rights. The two main personnel provisions of interest to NTEU are:

 

A provision that would prohibit the IRS from hiring individuals who have previously been removed by the agency for misconduct, unacceptable performance, or for violating one of the so-called Ten Deadly Sins under the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998. Unlike past versions of similar language, this change would apply prospectively to any individuals hired after this bill’s date of enactment and would not impact anyone currently employed by the IRS. Earlier language to extend the re-hiring prohibition to individuals who have voluntarily separated following a proposed removal for misconduct or performance is no longer included.

 

The second provision would require taxpayer notification by Treasury if there is a proposed administrative determination for discipline or adverse action against an IRS employee owing to the individual’s unauthorized inspection or disclosure of a taxpayer’s return or return information.

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