By Dan Gephart, August 8, 2022 For five-plus years, we at FELTG and others have referred to the then-growing backlog of cases at the Merit Systems Protection Board with dread. So the enthusiasm with which MSPB Acting Chair Cathy Harris is approaching her new position,...
By Dan Gephart, July 12, 2022 As Federal agencies work to implement the President’s Executive Orders on diversity and inclusion, navigate requirements to offer relevant training, and seek to hire chief diversity officers, I can’t help but think of one person in...
By Dan Gephart, April 25, 2022 A key milestone in the Biden Administration’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility efforts passed by quietly last month, as the deadline passed for agencies to submit their DEIA strategy plans to the Office of Personnel...
By Dan Gephart, April 18, 2022 Ernest DuBester holds the Federal Labor-Management Relations statute close to his heart. Literally. During our recent conversation, the FLRA chairman pulled a mini printed version of the statute from the left breast pocket of his shirt...
By Dan Gephart, March 21, 2022 It’s just four words, but we are so thankful that we won’t have to include them in any more presentations or articles about the Merit Systems Protection Board. I’m talking about, of course, “lack of a quorum.” On March 1, the Senate...
Course Description It’s one of the situations most managers would most like to avoid — an employee who doesn’t show up for work. As agencies order some employees to return to the physical workplace, the[...]