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A trial court has rebuffed the government's attempts to set aside a jury verdict in favor of an unsuccessful applicant for an FBI Special Agent position. The FBI…
A Physicist/Scientist with the Naval Surface Warfare Center was not able to persuade the appeals court to overturn an indefinite suspension that lasted 370 days after the Navy…
A district court has ruled that a small number of unsuccessful applicants for the DOJ Honors Program and Summer Law Intern Program who claim their applications were excluded…
A fired Architect of the Capitol employee has learned a second time that it is pretty difficult to sue your former bosses for personal damages.
A finding of sexual harassment against an employee of the Department of Interior results in an award of $149,459.75 to the employee--even though she did not claim any…
The author calls for a critical examination of Federal labor relations instead of the draft executive order currently making the rounds in DC. He suggests it is time…
Why do so many agencies make upper management responsible for the contents and accuracy of letters of reprimand? the author says that this policy undermines a supervisors' authority…
The plain language of the proposed order requires Agencies to "allow employees and their union representatives pre-decisional involvement in all workplace matters". This provision has some fairly staggering…
A draft of the proposed Executive Order on the administration's vision of Federal labor relations has surfaced. There is a striking similarity to President Clinton's E.O. 12871. There…
There have been several Federal Register notices, proposed rule extensions, numerous comments from interested parties, and probably much wringing of hands within OPM on a proposal to eliminate…