The world of work has permanently changed, and enhanced workplace flexibilities can ease employee work-life balance and reduce their costs while making government employment attractive to a diverse workforce and enabling agency savings on real estate and other costs. The panel will explore the advantages of telework and remote work for employees and agencies, the challenges such flexible work arrangements raise, potential barriers to agency-union collaboration and ways to overcome those barriers.
Doreen P. Greenwald, a frontline federal employee for 35 years, was elected National President in August 2023. As the union’s top elected official, she is the spokesperson for the union representing NTEU with the media, Congress and agency leadership on issues important to union members and federal employees. Greenwald was previously the Special Assistant to the National President and was elected National Executive Vice President in 2022. She spent her federal career at the IRS, where she worked as a revenue officer and served for 14 years as president of NTEU Chapter 1 (IRS Wisconsin). Greenwald helped bargain multiple collective bargaining agreements between NTEU and the IRS.
Martin H. Malin is Professor Emeritus at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, where he taught for 41 years, founded the Institute for Law and the Workplace, and served as Director of the Institute for 25 years. He joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1980 after serving as law clerk to United States District Judge Robert E. DeMascio in Detroit and on the faculty of The Ohio State University. A renown scholar on the law governing the workplace, he has published more than 80 articles and seven books on labor law. Professor Malin has served as National Chair of the Labor Relations and Employment Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, Secretary of the ABA Section on Labor and Employment Law, member of the Executive Committee of the Labor Law Group, member of the Board of Governors and Vice President of the National Academy of Arbitrators, and member of the Board of Governors of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. In October 2009, President Obama appointed Professor Malin as a member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel. President Obama reappointed Professor Malin in 2014 and Malin served until May 2017. In 2016, the ABA presented Professor Malin with the Arvid Anderson Award for lifetime contributions to public sector labor law. He has a B.A. from Michigan State University and a J.D. from George Washington University.
Traci DiMartini assumed the role of Human Capital Officer (HCO) for the Internal Revenue Service in June 2023. In her role as HCO, Traci serves as a principal advisor to the IRS Commissioner and the Senior Executive Team on complex HR management issues, policies, and programs involving enterprise HR policy and program development, staffing and recruitment, labor and employee relations, performance management, awards, workforce planning and analysis, classification, corporate education and training, compensation and benefits, executive services, and HR systems management.
Prior to joining the IRS, Traci served as the Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO) for General Services Administration (GSA) where she led a geographically dispersed staff of 300 human resources professionals who served a 12,000-member workforce. In this role she led GSAs Future of Work initiative, which focused on transforming the agency into an employer of choice in the post-COVID environment and chaired the CHCO Council Future of Work group to provide guidance to the Office of Personnel Management on policy and legislative matters.
Prior to her tenure with GSA, Traci served as the CHCO/Associate Peace Corps Director with the Peace Corps. In this position, she managed domestic and overseas staff at 59 international posts and successfully revamped the Peace Corps staffing pattern process, streamlined positions, improved employee and labor relations, and instituted hiring policies and procedures aligned with the Foreign Assistance Manual.
Traci also served as the CHCO with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where she oversaw a $5.2 million budget, implemented a new agency-wide performance management program, and developed and implemented the agency’s Human Capital Operating Plan and workforce succession plan.
Traci is an accomplished executive leader with over 20 years of federal government experience in strategic human resources management. She is a passionate advocate for federal workers and is committed to driving positive change and maximizing potential of the human capital programs.
Traci received her master’s degree from Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Public Policy with a concentration in Labor Policy, and undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Communications from Miami University of Ohio. She is also a proud native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Original Program Date: 09/19/2024 |