Is OFO Trying to Cut Through its Backlog with Shorter Decisions?

By Deryn Sumner, July 19, 2017 Our colleague and friend Ernie Hadley has preached for years that the EEOC’s Office of Federal Operations could get more decisions out in a timely manner if it stopped issuing multipage decisions that ultimately concluded with: we agree...

The EEO Supervisor Who Never Heard of a Targeted Disability

By Deborah Hopkins, July 19, 2017 A few weeks ago, I was talking shop with a colleague, and he mentioned that he’d recently run into an agency EEO supervisor who had never heard the term targeted disability. “C’mon,” I said, “There’s no way that’s right.” “Right or...

OPM Doesn’t Care if You are Killed

By William Wiley, July 19, 2017 Regular readers of our newsletter will remember the celebration we had when Congress created a new type of paid leave status back in December: Notice Leave. The problem we’ve been having for several years has been a conflict between two...

Learn to Avoid Unjustified Gambles

By William Wiley, July 19, 2017 So many questions, there are. This month, we got a good one from a long-time reader about the use of Letters of Warning. The writer was being advised (accompanied by legal citations) that a Letter of Warning was considered as prior...

Accommodating Employees with Disabilities During Litigation

By Deryn Sumner, July 19, 2017 When we think of accommodating employees with disabilities, we often think of it only in the context of what accommodations the employee needs to perform the essential functions of his or her job at work.  However, when employees with...

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