Managing a Potentially Suicidal Employee
As suicide rates rise across the country, the impact is being felt in the workplace. Learning how to correctly manage an employee’s suicidal crisis and ideations is increasingly important. Knowing […]
Navigating FMLA in the Federal Workplace
Navigating the FMLA is one of the most complex tasks a Federal agency can face. It’s also one of the most popular and often-used entitlements, so if you haven’t had […]
Conducting an Effective MD-715 Barrier Analysis at Your Agency
Agencies seeking to become model employers have a wonderful tool to get there - MD-715, a policy issued by the EEOC over 20 years ago to provide guidance to agencies […]
Everything Feds Need to Know About Executive Orders
In this century, presidents have issued, on average, just under 40 Executive Orders (EOs) per year. President Biden has issued an average of 38 per year, and in his first […]
Tools for Leadership: Face Conflict, Address Accountability, and Build Morale
With each successive Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey report, experts diagnose the problem, often pointing to top agency leadership and processes beyond the Federal supervisor’s realm. What can Federal supervisors do […]
Telework and Remote Work as Reasonable Accommodation
With organizations mandating employees to return to the physical office space, you can expect more reasonable accommodation requests for telework or remote work than ever before. If someone has successfully […]
Get it Right the First Time: Accepting, Dismissing, and Framing EEO Claims
A surprisingly large number of agency dismissals are overturned by the EEOC each year – and a remand years after the events in question can equal big problems when it […]
Writing Final Agency Decisions
A Final Agency Decision is appealable, by the complainant, to the EEOC. And EEOC case law is filled with reversals of agency FADs that found no discrimination. This class will […]
Managing Performance Issues that Intersect with Reasonable Accommodation
Whether it’s addressing an employee’s up-and-down roller coaster performance or addressing claims that a reasonable accommodation is ineffective and causing performance problems, complex scenarios like these take up time, create […]
Responding Swiftly and Effectively to Inappropriate Sexual Conduct
Sexual harassment is a term of art that while easy to allege, isn’t always easy to prove. However, just because something may not rise to the level of Title VII […]
Merit-based Hiring in the Federal Workplace
President Trump’s recent Executive Order laid out numerous steps to improve the efficiency of the Federal hiring system, focusing on merit-based personnel decisions. These steps include a decreased hiring timeline, […]