EEOC Issues New Guidance on Retaliation Claims

By Deryn Sumner Last month, the EEOC issued revised Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues.  The Commission last issued such guidance in 1998.  Since then, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, which came into effect on...

Is it Just Me, or is Reasonable Accommodation Becoming Trickier?

By Deborah Hopkins At FELTG we love our webinars. As part of each webinar agenda, we take Q & A breaks to answer your questions. Sometime we get questions that come via email after the webinars end, and occasionally we’ll answer those in our newsletter so that all...

Yes, But Who?

By William Wiley Here’s another article in our series of advisories to the new incoming President. Hey, you may know a lot about building golf courses or flying around the globe acting all “Stately,” but here at FELTG, we bet you don’t know diddly about federal...

Fox News Could Have Used This Report a Few Months Ago

By Deryn Sumner My colleagues and I are never going to see settlements in the range of $20 million dollars, as Fox News agreed to pay out a few days ago, after being hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Gretchen Carlson and others.  But harassment in the...

Making EAP Referrals

By Barbara Haga This month we are exploring what a referral to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) looks like. Referral in Daily Practice Years ago OPM had a film that I often used in supervisory training on EAP.  In fact, I used it so many times I can practically...

Agency Effectively Accommodated Employee with Sensitivity to Smells

By Deryn Sumner Sometimes during EEOC Law Week and webinars, we’ll get questions about if and how agencies can accommodate employees with chemical sensitivities.  EEOC’s Office of Federal Operations recently issued an interesting decision in Martina S. v. Department...

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