Ambulance Company Fails to Respond Properly to Harassment Allegation

By Dan Gephart, February 15, 2022 Within 24 hours of receiving an unwelcome picture of a sexual nature from a coworker, EMT Andrea Vasquez was fired. For sexual harassment. How does something like that happen? Vasquez v. Express Ambulance Service, 835 F.3d 267 (2d...

Questionable Hiring Decision Leads to Bad Behavior in HR Office

By Barbara Haga, February 15, 2022 In August 2020, I wrote about a case involving an HR official who sent racists texts about other employees to subordinates, which the subordinates reported. Jenkins v. Department of Transportation, No. 2019-2075 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 6,...

Federal Court Puts Vaccine Mandate on Pause: What’s Next?

By Dan Gephart, January 24, 2022 The FELTG mailbag has been overfilled of late with questions from readers preparing to take adverse actions against employees who failed to comply with President Biden’s vaccine mandate. Today we can answer all those questions with...

The State of the Civil Service: 2022 Edition

By Deborah Hopkins, January 11, 2022 It’s now 2022, and over the past 12 months there have been significant changes in the Federal civil service – common any time there’s a change in administration, but more so in this past year than any other year I can recall....

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