# Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service 2 documents across 2 days of the archive, 1 of them final rules. The five most recent days are below. [HTML](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/federal-mediation-and-conciliation-service/) · [the long-form archive](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/federal-mediation-and-conciliation-service/archive.md) · [the daily issue](https://downstream.sh/daily/index.md) ## Dates this agency has set that have not yet arrived | Date | Offset | What | Document | Agency | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-09-04 | today | Takes effect | [Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/04/2026-18129/senior-executive-service-performance-review-board) | Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | ## 4 September 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-09-04.md) > The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service published a notice identifying the members of its Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/federal-mediation-and-conciliation-service/#s-2026-09-04 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board *Notice* — Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is issuing this notice to inform the public of the names of the members of the Agency's Senior Executive Service (SES) Performance Review Board. - **Takes effect** 4 September 2026 (today) 91 FR 56886 · FR Doc. 2026-18129 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-04/pdf/2026-18129.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/04/2026-18129/senior-executive-service-performance-review-board) ## 28 August 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-28.md) > The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service issued an interim final rule clarifying when its Office of Arbitration may decline arbitration panel requests. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/federal-mediation-and-conciliation-service/#s-2026-08-28 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### Requests for Arbitration Panels *Rule* — Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is issuing an interim final rule with requests for comments to amend its arbitration services regulations. The interim final rule clarifies the circumstances in which the Office of Arbitration (OA) may decline to issue an arbitration panel, make a direct appointment, or provide related arbitration services. The rule would remove language that could be read to require FMCS to honor every unilateral request for an arbitration panel, regardless of legal constraints or FMCS's authority. Due to a technical error, FMCS is reposting this IFR and extending the deadline for comments to 30 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register. FMCS seeks public comment on this interim final rule. - **Takes effect** 28 August 2026 (7 days ago) 91 FR 55473 · FR Doc. 2026-17652 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-28/pdf/2026-17652.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/28/2026-17652/requests-for-arbitration-panels) ## Ask an assistant instead Everything on this page is also a tool call. Add `mcp.downstream.sh` as an MCP server — no key, no account — then paste this: ``` Using the Downstream MCP server at mcp.downstream.sh, call whats_new_since with agency "Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service" since 2026-08-28, then summarise what changed and list every deadline it created. ``` Reaches `whats_new_since`. The response carries its own citations and states what it is missing, including which dates it has no record for. --- Every document linked here is a work of the United States government and in the public domain. The Federal Register's HTML and XML renderings are unofficial; the PDF on each item is the official text, and that is the one to cite. Counts are arithmetic over published fields, dates are printed as filed, and titles are verbatim. Where we have nothing, this says nothing rather than estimating. The one-sentence agency summaries are machine-written from those same fields and are labelled where they appear. [Downstream](https://downstream.sh/) · [the essay](https://downstream.sh/essays/a-country-that-can-see.html) · [the daily issue](https://downstream.sh/daily/) · [MCP endpoint](https://mcp.downstream.sh)