By William Wiley, December 13, 2017 Pop Quiz: What do these three individuals have in common? Charlie Rose Matt Lauer Garrison Keillor Answer: No doubt, a list of very descriptive words came to mind when you were trying to come up with an answer. Well, since this is...
By Deborah Hopkins, December 13, 2017 You probably saw last week that Time Magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year is not a person at all, but rather is a group of people: “The Silence Breakers,” the women who came forward under #MeToo as victims of sexual...
By Deryn Sumner, December 13, 2017 Last month, the Commission issued a decision modifying a Final Agency Decision which had found no discrimination, and found the National Science Foundation failed to accommodate an employee with stage 4 terminal cancer. This case is...
By William Wiley, December 13, 2017 Thirty-nine years ago this month, all of us employment law practitioners began reading and re-reading the brand new “Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.” So much to know (and not know). New rules, new flexibilities; every agency...
By Deryn Sumner, December 13, 2017 First, a joke. My husband and I were walking down the street recently when he turned to me and asked, if Santa Claus knows if you’ve been bad or good, how did he not pick up on the fact that Rudolph was being bullied by the other...
By William Wiley, December 13, 2017 Recently, the Acting Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services took the accountability-bull by the PIP-horns. Instead of leaving the length of a PIP to the vagaries of the various supervisors and management advisors within the...
Course Description Whether you’re an HR professional, employee relations practitioner, EEO specialist, supervisor, or agency counsel, you have undoubtedly faced a leave-related challenge. And chances are, you struggled. We understand. Leave is an entitlement. But[...]