Category Archives: EEO/Discrimination
REASSIGNMENT RIGHTS TO TELEWORK-APPROVED JOBS If an agency has terminated your right to telework, do you have the right to be reassigned to a job that does permit telework?
“PROVE YOU ARE RELIGIOUS OR ELSE” When Alisia, a VA employee, asked to have every Sunday off to practice her religion, management asked her to prove that she actually participated in religious activity. More specifically, it wanted the name and … Continue reading
SUPERVISOR VERSUS CO-WORKER SEXUAL HARASSMENT Are your legal protections different between them? YUP! The Solomon Law Firm did a good job in laying out the differences and we recommend that you take use a few minutes to read through what … Continue reading
OPM ADDRESSES WHAT IS AND ISN’T STILL NEGOTIABLE ON PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS Now that we are moving to a forced distribution rating environment which will require each manager to brand some employees as the worst in the group even if they … Continue reading
WHEN CO-WORKERS HARASS EEO COMPLAINANTS An employee filed an EEO complaint alleging disparate treatment, which was found to be without merit. However, before the agency dismissed the complaint, the supervisors put out the word that they were going to begin … Continue reading
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MAGIC WORDS NOT REQUIRED What if you tell your supervisor that you are finding it very difficult to accomplish an assigned task because of a physical or mental problem and he does nothing? Then, soon thereafter you get an unacceptable … Continue reading
Posted in ADA/ADAAA, Disability, Reasonable Accommodations
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AGENCY PIP DISCRIMINATORY; EMPLOYEE REINSTATED A deaf/Hard of Hearing employee could read lips in one-on-one conversations, but needed an accommodation to participate in group conversations. Consequently, his performance suffered and the agency put him on a PIP, which ended in … Continue reading
NFFE’S CRUSADE FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM NFFE could have just let it slide as yet another act of insanity by a Trump appointee in an ever-growing line of them. But we all owe the union thanks for taking on this fight … Continue reading
PROBATIONER GETS FIVE YEARS BACK PAY PLUS She wasn’t asking a lot nor for anything that other feds have not requested thousands of times. Still in her probationary period, she asked for a reasonable accommodation and backed it up with … Continue reading
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THIS IS WHAT MERIT PROMOTION RACISM LOOKS LIKE We have reported on a number of cases where the EEOC found the agency’s promotion process to be irrational, nonsensical or worse. Generally, that is based on scoring decisions that are outright … Continue reading