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Deciding an Adverse Action: The Process and the Proposal
Deciding whether to take an adverse action official is one of the more difficult tasks a Federal manager may perform. Much is on the table for the employee, the manager and the organization. The author's goal in this series is to help decision-makers identify the decision points and provide context to the paper you'll be seeing. This, the first in a three part series, addresses the overall process involved and a framework for analyzing the proposed action.

Posted: May 13, 2008 7:40 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Lying about Government Credit Card Debt Leads to Removal
This Dept. of Veterans Affairs employee filled out a background investigation form but provided inaccurate answers to certain questions. She was fired and the MSPB and a federal court upheld her removal.

Posted: May 11, 2008 9:35 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Love in the Federal Workplace
Our patterns of courtship have changed with new technology. Ardent, would-be lovers are not the only people to use the Internet. One government employee found herself the victim of a scam--and the scammer got her personal information from her government computer.

Posted: May 6, 2008 8:36 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Marriage, Death and Your Survivor Annuity
A federal employee who died was divorced in 1988 but never filed a form to remove his former wife as his designated beneficiary. What impact does that have on his ex-wife whom he had divorced almost 20 years ago? Where financial impact does it have on his new wife? As this case shows, actions you take (or do not take) have an impact on those you leave behind.

Posted: May 5, 2008 7:13 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

The Politics (and Money) of Federal Union "Official Time"
In another dispute involving the union's use of official time, FLRA backed off a stance taken in previous decision, reminding all of us again how important union institutional issues are to Federal unions and their friends among the "neutrals". The author suggests that employee working conditions' improvements take a back seat to union institutional issues again and that FLRA's reversal is part of the politics of labor relations and clearly not part of the the law.

Posted: April 30, 2008 9:47 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

Claim for Overtime and Mileage Leads to Removal--Court Overturns MSPB
"We are at a loss to understand how an employee could be said to engage in misconduct by submitting an overtime claim based on an estimate so long as the estimate was reasonable."

Posted: April 30, 2008 7:31 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

"Substantial Evidence" Upholds Removal for Positive Results on Random Drug Test
A federal employee who was fired as a result of a positive drug test stays fired upo9n appeal despite the employee paying for a subsequent polygraph and drug tests.

Posted: April 29, 2008 7:16 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Article

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