William Wiley
Professor Emeritus, Former President
William Wiley is the co-founder and former president of the Federal Employment Law Training Group. An attorney with over 35 years of experience, Mr. Wiley formerly served as Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the MSPB and Chief of Staff to the General Counsel of FLRA. He is now an attorney in private practice representing agencies before the MSPB, EEOC, and OSC. Mr. Wiley is the developer of the e-training modules, How to Fire a Federal Employee and How to Defend a Federal Employee. He is the co-author of UnCivil Servant: Holding Government Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct, 5th Edition.
Areas of Training Expertise
Recent Articles
How Much Information Does an Employee Have a Right to at the Proposal Stage?
By Deb Hopkins and William Wiley, December 15, 2020 Here’s an email that recently came across the FELTG desk: Dear FELTG, Our agency has encountered an issue we haven't seen, and were wondering if you might have some insight. Typical for my agency's chapter 43...
Precedential Fed Circuit Decision: Which Expert Determines If Employee is Unfit?
By William Wiley, October 14, 2020 Last month, the Federal Circuit issued Ramirez v. DHS, No. 2019-1534 (Sept. 15, 2020), which dealt with the concept of an “unfit” termination. What the court is calling an “unfit” termination is more precisely a “medical inability to...
Refuse, Report, Resign? Well, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
By William Wiley, August 19, 2020 We've been seeing a lot in the national media lately about civil servants as whistleblowers. Some groups hate them, some groups love them. Unfortunately, neither group always understands the federal whistleblower protection laws. That...