• Dealing with ‘Other’ Harassment: It’s Not Always About EEO

    Not everyone has the same definition of “harassment.” While most professionals recognize harassment that violates Title VII, some employees consider it harassment when supervisors provide critical performance feedback or assign […]

  • Disability Accommodation: Navigating the Interactive Process

    Potential reasonable accommodations should be discussed by the employee and the agency, through what the EEOC refers to as “the interactive process.” So, what exactly does the interactive process involve? […]

  • The Reasonable Accommodation Mistakes Agencies Make

    If you’ve ever used undue hardship to deny an accommodation request or asked for more information from an employee’s doctor, we have two words for you: Uh oh. Oftentimes the […]

  • Revisiting Existing Reasonable Accommodations

    You’ve gone through the interactive process and come up with a reasonable accommodation that both you and the employee think will be effective. Are you done? Not even close. And […]

  • Eliminating Microaggressions and Bias in the Workplace

    What is a microaggression? Can microaggressions ever rise to the level of unlawful workplace harassment? And if they aren’t acts of discrimination, why should you care? During this training, FELTG […]

  • Assessing Risk and Taking Action: Threats and Violence in the Workplace

    Whether it’s a disgruntled employee or customer, a domestic issue that follows an employee to work, or an unknown individual intent on causing harm, workplaces are at a distinct risk of violent incidents. And that risk may be heightened when it’s a Federal workplace. How do you prepare yourself to protect the lives of those […]

  • Understanding Neurodivergence in the Workplace

    Research estimates that around 1% of the population has an autism spectrum disorder, between 5-9% are estimated to have a learning disability, and just under 10% have a diagnosis of ADHD. The ability to recruit and retain neurodivergent employees will make your agency more effective, and understanding how slight workplace accommodations can allow a neurodivergent […]

  • Advanced EEO: Navigating Complex Issues

    When EEO challenges arise, they rarely show up as run-of-the-mill simple scenarios you’ve worked through in a training class. Are you an EEO professional, attorney or advisor eager to learn how to more […]