Is Three-strikes Progressive Discipline a Thing of the Past?
By Deborah J. Hopkins, March 15, 2023 A recent MSPB nonprecedential decision has me scratching my head, as the outcome appears to go against over 40 years of case precedent. […]
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Position Descriptions and Performance Plans – Part 3
By Barbara Haga, July 21, 2021 Over the past two columns, we reviewed what position descriptions should cover to give you maximum ability to determine qualifications, establish accountability, and to […]
Harassment Investigation Challenge: Who is Telling the Truth?
By Dan Gephart, September 29, 2020 If you’re a regular reader of Barbara Haga’s articles in our monthly newsletter (and if you’re not, what’s wrong with you?), you may have […]
The Good News – Investigations are the Fun Part!
By Ann Boehm, March 19, 2020 Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last 30 years, chances are that at some point you have watched an episode of […]
Using Progressive Discipline: How Many Strikes Before You’re Out?
By Deborah Hopkins, March 10, 2020 I spend most of my days talking about discipline. It’s a topic that I find very interesting, as do a lot of you in […]
ASK FELTG: In light of Van Wersh/ McCormick, do you have any suggested language for a waiver of appeal rights in exchange for a new appointment?
September 24, 2019 Challenges to waiver language have not come up enough in caselaw since Van Wersh for us to have definitively worded notice language. However, the basic principle of waiver is that […]
Hey, Deciding Officials: What Exactly Does Ex Parte Mean?
By Deborah Hopkins, April 10, 2019 In federal sector employment law, we often use terms of art that carry very specific meaning. These terms may vary from a typical dictionary […]
The Ford-Kavanaugh Tell-the-Truth Tool
By William Wiley, October 9, 2018 The Ford-Kavanaugh Senate hearings had much of our country focused on the concept of evidence and proof. In last week’s FELTG News Flash, we wrote about the […]
A Chance to Do the Right Thing
By William Wiley If you know a bit about emergency room medicine (or, heart attacks), you may have heard of “the golden hour.” That’s the critical time period that begins […]
I’ve Never Seen a Decision Like This One
By William Wiley I’ve read them all. Yep, starting in 1979, I began to read Board decisions, and never stopped. Today, I lay claim to having read all of MSPB’s […]
