Do I Have to Pay My Disabled Employee’s Wife to Assist Him at Work?

By Deborah Hopkins, October 18, 2017 The answer to this article’s title: maybe. Earlier this year, EEOC amended the regulations on federal agency obligations to provide Personal Assistance Services (PAS) to employees who have targeted disabilities. (If you need a...

Litigation Constipation

By William Wiley, October 18, 2017 In the world of civil service law, we live and die by the works of our alphabetical oversight agencies: MSPB, EEOC, FLRA, OPM, FSIP, and OSC. When they shut down, some part of the federal employment system shuts down, as well. Coming...

Negligence and Federal Employees II

By Barbara Haga, October 18, 2017 In the last column, I dealt with negligence in medical positions, where perhaps the life and death consequences are somewhat more apparent.  In this column, I will review cases of negligence or careless workmanship in other kinds of...

Are You a Bureaucrat or are You the Next Steve Jobs?

By William Wiley, October 18, 2017 Here’s a little quiz to demonstrate the difference between the private sector world and the world of bureaucratic government employment: When confronted with the question, can you do X, you look for: Some authority that says you can...

A Classic Reprisal Case

By Deborah Hopkins, October 18, 2017 EEO activity isn’t fun for anyone involved – not for the complainant, not for the agency reps, and not for the supervisor named as a responding management official. But EEO laws exist to protect people from illegal reprisal for...

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