By Barbara Haga, September 11, 2023 FELTG President Emeritus Bill Wiley sent me an MSPB decision last week. Many of you are aware I spent most of my Federal career working for the Navy, and Bill spent some time there, too. At the end of my years with the Navy, I...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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