That’s It! I’ve HAD It! I’m DONE!

By Deborah Hopkins I am mad. Really mad. I am mad about the terrible advice a federal supervisor was given by her chief counsel’s office, about not holding an employee accountable for her performance out of fear of an EEO reprisal complaint. The kind of situation...

Starting to Lose “The Faith”

By William Wiley Here at FELTG, we are civil service systems people. We take the position that there’s little wrong with the system that cannot be fixed by the system. In other words, we may occasionally disagree with a decision issued by an oversight agency, but for...

Arbitration – “It’s Just Not Fair”

By Barbara Haga About a year ago I wrote about a credit card misuse case where the disciplinary action was taken to arbitration.  The arbitrator did not find that a GS-13 (with prior discipline about card use) taking ATM advances on the card when not on travel was...

Changing the Law Won’t Help

By William Wiley Dear Mr./Ms New President, Sometimes I don’t know whether to scream or cry. Last week was the 38th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. In 1984, MPSB held that under the “new” Civil Service Reform Act, although it...

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