What Came First: The Appointment or the Reason for Termination?
By Barbara Haga, August 14, 2023 [Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles on excepted service, trial periods, and appeal rights. Read Barbara’s first two articles here and here.] This month, we look at even more distinctions between probationary...How Preference Eligibility Can ‘Upset’ a Simple Termination Case
By Barbara Haga, July 18, 2023 While the purposes of a trial period and a probationary period are much the same, the rights for excepted service employees who are subject to an adverse action are different than those for competitive service employees. In fact, it...Making Sense of Excepted Service, Trial Periods, and Appeal Rights
By Barbara Haga, May 16, 2023 Practitioners often ask me about when an excepted service employee has appeal rights. The answer to this question is not as simple as it might seem. Let’s look at what excepted service is all about. Depending on the agencies you have...Pay Attention: Avoid These Compensation Issues That Derail Settlement Agreements
By Barbara Haga, April 17, 2023 I’m wrapping up this series on settlement agreements with a couple of cases where the agency agreed to a condition regarding a pay matter that could not be legally done. You can find my settlement agreement article from last...When Settlement Agreements Fall Apart: Leave Issues
By Barbara Haga, March 13, 2023 I enjoyed putting together the columns on clean record agreements so much that I thought we should follow that thread. This month, we look at things agreed to in settlement agreements that were ruled to be illegal and resulted in the...Upcoming Events
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