Good News: Hostile Work Environment is Harder to Prove Than You Think

By Ann Boehm August 14, 2023 A “hostile work environment” as a form of discrimination has been prohibited since the 1980s.  The Equal Employment Commission’s guidance and regulations on what constitutes sexual harassment, from the 1980s through now, describe illegal...

July 2023 Federal Employment Law Training Group Newsletter

July 2023 Federal Employment Law Training Group Newsletter Misconceptions About Security Clearance Revocations Abound   A few weeks ago, Ann Boehm wrote an article about the benefits of employee reassignment – in certain situations, anyway. A fairly new MSPB NP...

The Good News: Fed Circuit Offers Reminder to Charge Carefully

By Ann Boehm, July 18, 2023 An agency lost a removal case before the Federal Circuit this month. In Williams v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, an arbitrator sustained the employee’s removal, but the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the arbitrator’s decision because...

The Good News: Words and Attitude Matter — and Can Justify Removal

By Ann Boehm, June 14, 2023 Frequently, folks in FELTG training classes ask how to handle an employee who is rude, or angry, or disruptive, or makes inappropriate comments, or writes inappropriate emails. Often, these folks mention complaints from other staff members...

The Good News: Reassignment May Be the Best Thing for Everyone

By Ann Boehm, May 16, 2023 Our FELTG classes on performance and misconduct emphasize that before supervisors take action against a problem employee, they try everything else first. Reassignment is one of the suggested things to try. I worked in the Federal government...

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