The Good News: A Letter to Santa

By Ann Boehm, December 15, 2020 Dear Santa: I think I have been very good this year, although 2020 needs to be on the naughty list. I hope you and Mrs. Claus are doing OK during the pandemic. For Christmas this year, here are some Federal employment law things I’d...

Schedule F, Politicized Policy or Top-to-Bottom Transformation?

By Michael Rhoads, December 15, 2020 The Trump administration is looking to make sweeping changes to federal employment by introducing a new schedule which could, if fully implemented, convert career conditional employees to at-will employees.  In the Executive Order,...

Don’t Throw Out the Baby With the Bath Water

By Barbara Haga, December 15, 2020 This expression is bizarre – who would lose track of their baby in the bath? It is interesting, though.  I did a bit of research.  The phrase is German in origin and by the 1600s, it was commonly used and appeared in writings of...

Tips from the Other Side: Reassignments and Reasonable Accommodation

By Meghan Droste, December 15, 2020 We’ve made it, readers. It’s finally the end of 2020 and that seems like as good a time as any to wrap up our ongoing look at reasonable accommodation issues in this space.  I’m sure we’ll touch on them again at some point in 2021,...

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