By Barbara Haga, January 17, 2023 Last month, I wrote about problems with clean record agreements (CRA) in the hiring process. While the OPM regulations now contain no bar to doing them, living up to their terms can present some huge problems. This month, Iet’s look...
By Barbara Haga, December 6, 2022 With issuance of OPM’s final regulations covering Parts 315, 432, and 752 on Nov. 10, 2022 (87 FR 67765), the prohibition on clean record agreements will end. Effective Dec. 12, you are free to hide the dirty laundry to your heart’s...
By Barbara Haga, November 15, 2022 Last month, my colleague Ann Boehm wrote a great article The Good News: With Weingarten, The Law Is Enough. I cheered as she discussed the various elements of the Weingarten right and when she suggested that agencies should not agree...
By Barbara Haga, October 18, 2022 I have written several articles about conditions of employment over the years. They are typically simple cases processed under 5 USC Chapter 75. The newly constituted Merit Systems Protection Board ruled on one of these cases in...
By Barbara Haga, September 12, 2022 I recently led a virtual training session on creating effective performance narratives as part of FELTG’s Federal Workplace 2022: Accountability, Challenges & Trends event, where I discussed several issues related to performance...
By Barbara Haga, June 21, 2022 Santos v. NASA changed the landscape last year, placing an additional requirement on agencies to prove that the person who was being placed in an improvement period for unacceptable performance actually was unacceptable at that time....
Download Registration Form Here Program Description As the new year turned, former FLRA Chair Ernest DuBester’s holdover term ended, leaving just two Authority members — Democrat Susan Tsui Grundmann (the new Chair) and Colleen Duffy Kiko[...]