Field Report from the EEOC’s Baltimore Field Office’s “Meet the Administrative Judges” Program
By Deryn Sumner, June 14, 2017 Last month, the EEOC’s Baltimore Field Office held an event that provides an opportunity to agency representatives, complainant’s advocates, and others to informally meet the administrative judges and ask questions. I’ll begin this...Well, We Never Saw This One Before
By William Wiley, June 14, 2017 Here at FELTG, we’ve seen a lot of things. In fact, sometimes we smile when someone comes up to us at a seminar and says, “I have a very unusual situation.” Ha, ha, ha, we chuckle silently. It might be unusual to you, Buddy, but we’ve...Psychiatric Examinations – One More Time
By Barbara Haga, June 14, 2017 Last month I wrote about “unnecessary barriers” that are included in agency performance plans and union contracts, that inhibit the ability of an agency to take action on performance problems. This month we’re going to take a look at...Establishing a Successful Good Faith Defense to Compensatory Damages in Failure to Accommodate a Disability Cases
By Deryn Sumner, June 14, 2017 Section 102 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 allows for the agency to escape liability for compensatory damages where the agency failed to accommodate an employee’s disability, if the agency can demonstrate it made a good faith effort to...The Fate of Political Appointees
By William Wiley, June 14, 2017 Oh, so many questions do we get. And this one is asking to peer into the secret world of political appointment. Dear FELTG Know-it-Alls: I have a question about something you posted in your 5/24/17 post entitled, “Big News in...Upcoming Events
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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[...]