By Dan Gephart, May 16, 2022 Have you ever had an employee challenge your order or refuse an assignment? Has an employee ever replied to an order with the question: What gives you the right to make me do this? Regarding the latter, the answer is simple — 5 USC...
By Deborah Hopkins, January 11, 2021 Unless you were living under a rock on a deserted island without Wi-Fi for the last week, you saw the horrifying sight of a mob of American citizens, in protest of the results of the Presidential election, rioting at the United...
By Deborah Hopkins, September 16, 2020 We discuss misconduct a lot during some FELTG training classes. And in other classes, we discuss sexual harassment in the workplace. Sometimes these two matters are discussed in the same class because rarely do workplace issues...
Challenges to waiver language have not come up enough in caselaw since Van Wersh for us to have definitively worded notice language. However, the basic principle of waiver is that notice must be clear for any subsequent claim of waiver to be knowing. Many agencies...
By Deborah Hopkins, April 10, 2019 In federal sector employment law, we often use terms of art that carry very specific meaning. These terms may vary from a typical dictionary definition, or even from a black-letter law definition. Examples include discipline, due...
By William Wiley Questions, we get questions. And the answer for this one comes straight out of our famous “Charges” day in our equally famous MSPB Law Week seminar: Dear FELTG Team- We have an employee who has been charged with “fraud.” We are not sure that his...
Download Individual Registration Form Course Description FELTG’s flagship course UnCivil Servant empowers federal supervisors and advisers to confidently handle the challenges that come with supervising in the federal workplace. We hope that you never have to[...]