My Meghan Droste, June 12, 2018 “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Mark Twain’s excellent note on word choice is a lesson we can all learn from...
By William Wiley, June 5, 2018 As most of our wonderful readers know by now, on May 25 President Trump issued three executive orders to shake up the civil service. One of them primarily was focused on employee accountability for performance and misconduct. As we wrote...
By William Wiley, September 13, 2017 If you have been to any of our FELTG accountability seminars, you know that we are big fans of performance-based removals. When it comes to firing bad employees, if the choice is between initiating the misconduct (5 CFR 752)...
By William Wiley, March 28, 2017 Oh, boy. Another great issue raised by a regular-reader who’s just trying to do the right thing: Dear FELTG- I am an L/ER specialist who provides advice and guidance to managers on disciplinary and adverse actions, including removals....
By Deryn Sumner, February 15, 2017 Federal employees have a very short statute of limitations to initiate EEO contact: the employee must make contact with an EEO counselor within 45 days from the date of the act thought to be discriminatory. Luckily there are...
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