Dear Brothers and Sisters, Current and Former Bargaining Unit Employees;
It is my great pleasure to announce a major victory which your Union – the National Federation of Federal Employees, VA Council, has achieved on behalf of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs bargaining unit employees
Years of hard work by your Union and its attorneys – Michael Snider and The Law Offices of Snider & Associates, advocates of workers’ rights – has enabled NFFE VA Council to resolve its 2024 Overtime Grievance with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and recover damages on behalf of the bargaining unit. For many years, management failed to both designate and pay many of our members correctly in accordance with the laws governing overtime compensation and, as a result, many of you were not properly compensated for overtime work.
Thousands of those employed between February 2, 2022 and January 17, 2025 will benefit from this resolution.
Settlement payments will be distributed by Class Action Implementation Group (CAIG), an independent organization that specializes in administering financial settlements in these types of cases.
Up-to-date information will be posted on the Settlement page.
Please be aware that you must follow all instructions and respond in a timely manner.
Your Union leadership, both past and present, worked hard for many years to reach this settlement on your behalf. In celebrating this huge victory, we remind you that this is just one of our many important successes in recent years and we encourage you to become a member of NFFE VA Council.
In Solidarity,
Jeffrey J. Shapiro
Council President
NFFE VA Council