By Deborah Hopkins, March 16, 2021 For the past 20+ years, we have taught a principle in performance cases that has been around since the beginning of the Civil Service Reform Act: An agency does not need to justify putting an employee on a performance demonstration...
By Meghan Droste, March 16, 2021 When I started writing this article, I was planning to make the headline something about not being an ostrich. This seemed like a somewhat amusing way to highlight one of the points from the case I’m bringing to you, Thomasina B. v....
By Ann Boehm, March 16, 2021 I overheard an agency employee quote the headline above when explaining why a supervisor left his job for another position. The supervisor couldn’t deal with the union any longer. This is a sad statement. And yet, I’ve heard it before....
By William Wiley, March 16, 2021 Perhaps you’ve heard of this issue. In 2018, the US Supreme Court caused a bit of a civil service uproar when it held that a certain group of administrative law judges were “inferior officers of the United States.” That meant that each...
By Meghan Droste, March 16, 2021 This month, we continue our discussion of religious accommodations. In January, we looked at what an agency needs to do to establish that providing a religious accommodation to an employee would be an undue hardship (namely that there...
By Michael Rhoads, March 16, 2021 A goal without a plan is just a wish. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There are many wishes I have for 2021, but the short list is: Lose a little weight. Take my wife and kids on a “road trip” vacation. So how can I make these dreams a...
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[...]