Violence Prevention Measures Necessary in These Dangerous Times

By Dan Gephart, February 20, 2024 If it feels like a dangerous time for Feds, that’s because it is. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned earlier this year about a “deeply disturbing spike” in threats against Federal workers. A few weeks after Garland’s...

FELTG Sets the Record Straight on Whistleblowing

By Deborah Hopkins and William Wiley, October 8, 2019 We’ve been reading and hearing a lot lately about whistleblowers, most recently about the Ukraine/Biden/Trump situation. We’re not here to discuss the merits of the complaint about President...

The Good News: At Last, Successful Last Rites Agreements

By Ann Boehm, September 18, 2019 In many training sessions, we suggest that agencies consider a “Last Rites” Agreement to handle problem employees. In my experience, despite our encouragement, many agencies still don’t use this effective tool. Finally, however, I...

Arbitration – “It’s Just Not Fair”

By Barbara Haga About a year ago I wrote about a credit card misuse case where the disciplinary action was taken to arbitration.  The arbitrator did not find that a GS-13 (with prior discipline about card use) taking ATM advances on the card when not on travel was...

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