New MSPB Case Highlights Dangers of Retirement Misinformation

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...

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...

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...

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