Clean Record Agreements: You Can Use Them Now, But Should You?

By Barbara Haga, December 6, 2022 With issuance of OPM’s final regulations covering Parts 315, 432, and 752 on Nov. 10, 2022 (87 FR 67765), the prohibition on clean record agreements will end.  Effective Dec. 12, you are free to hide the dirty laundry to your heart’s...

No Debate Necessary: Accommodating Employees Who Had Strokes

By Dan Gephart, November 15, 2022 I watched my no longer undefeated Philadelphia Eagles take on the Washington Commanders on Monday Night Football. I am usually a wreck watching my Birds, and the last few weeks have been more anxiety-filled than ever. Despite the...

And Now a Word With … EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling

By Dan Gephart, October 18, 2022 Efficiency. Enforcement. These two words are probably not among the first to spring to mind when you think of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. But EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling has a whole lot of statistics to explain...

And Now a Word With … Former EEOC Commissioner Christine Griffin

By Dan Gephart, September 26, 2022 When Christine Griffin (photo, right) started her tenure as a commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2005, she had a long list of things she wanted to work on. Despite her previous work with the Boston...

Employees Can Be AWOL Even if at Work or Working Elsewhere

By Dan Gephart, September 12, 2022 Only six percent of American workers who have been teleworking since the pandemic began want to return to the physical workplace, according to a recent poll. You know that there are more than a handful of people at your agency who...

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