1. Was the court correct in deciding that a delay in management's right to fire an employee does not prevent management from actually exercising that right? Does the length of the delay make any difference?
2. The union proposal concerning the use of a seniority system in promotions if competitive procedures were not invoked by the agency could have been interpreted as being a substantive and not a procedural provision. Why do you think the court held that it was procedural?
3. If the union proposal concerning employee assignments based on seniority had provided that first testing and quantifying employee qualifications be made so that a pool of qualified employees was available for assignment and thereafter seniority would have been the determining factor, do you think the court would have felt that it was a negotiable item?