( October 28, 2026, 8:17 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rejecting a challenge filed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to an arbitration award issued over the department’s implementation of a presidential memorandum that ordered federal employees to return to in-person work, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) held that HHS failed to establish any valid grounds to overturn the award and flagged a litany of “fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant” citations in its brief supporting its exceptions to the award that may have derived from the use of a generative artificial intelligence tool....