We recently received the following question via Ask FELTG. Dear FELTG: An attorney in my agency’s legal office told me I am not allowed to rely on an employee’s past suspension as prior discipline in a Douglas factors analysis if the suspension is more than 10...
By Dan Gephart, June 17, 2024 Just over two years ago, we interviewed the newly sworn in Merit Systems Protection Board Vice Chair Raymond Limon. We discussed how Limon’s previous Federal work would help as the recently quorumed Board planned to tackle an inherited...
By Deborah J. Hopkins, June 3, 2024 As we discussed a few weeks ago, an indefinite suspension occurs when an agency puts an employee in a temporary status without duties and without pay for an undetermined period of time. Under the law, an agency may indefinitely...
By Dan Gephart, May 20, 2024 In previous roles with the Justice Department, as a deputy attorney general in the North Carolina Department of Justice, and as chief legal counsel in the Office of the North Carolina Governor, Hampton Dellinger (pictured, at right)...
By Deborah J. Hopkins, April 29, 2024 An indefinite suspension means placing an employee in a temporary status without duties and pay for an indeterminate period of time. An agency may indefinitely suspend an employee for three reasons only: The agency has reasonable...
By Deborah J. Hopkins, April 22, 2024 Have you ever thought about this: Allegations of workplace harassment are allegations of employee misconduct. It’s one of the first things we discuss during Conducting Effective Harassment Investigations (next offered April 30-May...
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