Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is issuing this notice to inform the public of the succession plan for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) provided by the Director of FMCS. This notice supersedes all prior succession plans issued by the agency for officials performing the functions and duties of the Director of FMCS.

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) Center for Conflict Resolution Education (CCRE) and Field Operations use this system to process conference attendee and participant registration. FMCS hosts, co-hosts, sponsors, or co-sponsors conferences designed to meet the real-world challenges of labor management relations, conflict resolution, mediation, and arbitration. FMCS uses additional vendors to register attendees and participants and to promote conferences. FMCS uses GovDelivery Communications Cloud to promote events. The notice amendment includes administrative updates to refine details published under summary, addresses, supplementary information, purpose of the system, policies and practices for storage of records, administrative safeguards, record access procedures, and the history section. These sections are amended to refine previously published information about the system of records. The dates, further information contact, system name, security classification, system location, system manager, authority for maintenance of the system, categories of individuals covered by the system, categories of records in the system, record source categories, routine uses, policies and practices for retrieval of records, policies and procedures for retention and disposal of records, contesting records procedures, notification procedures, and exemptions promulgated sections remain unchanged. This amended SORN deletes and supersedes the SORN published in the Federal Register on July 22, 2022.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) invites public comment on one current Information Collection Request (ICR), abstracted below, that we will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. The purpose of the collection is to facilitate a reporting requirement to FMCS by labor or management practitioners under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in an effort to utilize federal mediation to prevent or minimize disruption to the community that could arise from a labor/management dispute.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) uses this system to collect, process, and maintain information from applicants to the Shared Neutrals program. The purpose of this program is to reduce the cost of litigation involving EEO and workplace disputes across all federal agencies.

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) uses photographs, biographies, and agency contact information of employees to provide background information to the public, for use by stakeholders in preparation for services, and for trainings and conferences. FMCS may also use these documents for internal agency events and communications. Photographs of FMCS clients engaging in FMCS services allows FMCS to represent the services FMCS provides to our clients. The notice amendment includes administrative updates to refine details published under summary, dates, addresses, supplementary information, purpose of the system, categories of records in the system, record source categories, routine uses, record access procedures, contesting records procedures, and the history section. These sections are amended to refine previously published information about the system of records. The further information contact, system name, security classification, system location, system manager, authority for maintenance of the system, categories of individuals covered by the system, policies and practices for storage of records, policies and practices for retrieval of records, policies and procedures for retention and disposal of records, administrative safeguards, notification procedures, and exemptions promulgated sections remain unchanged. This amended SORN deletes and supersedes the SORN published in the Federal Register on August 19, 2021.