Despite the best efforts of the American education system to skip over the laws that will control the next 50 years of most students’ lives, generally high school graduates know that they are entitled to 12 weeks FMLA leave. But how many of us know that a sick employee may be entitled to more than 12 weeks off? Verizon’s legal staff didn’t and cost the corporation $20 million. Continue reading
EEOC just issued another decision awarding an employee $4,000 in damages for the “embarrassment, frustration, social isolation, and injury to his professional reputation” he suffered when his manager confronted him about his EEO charge and it turned into a “heated discussion.” Check out yet another EEO retaliation victory for an employee. (Webster v. Panetta, EEOC Appeal No. 0120102276, 9/20/11.)
Employees who successfully make it through a PIP walk on very thin ice for the 12 months afterwards. If their performance falls below the required standard during those 365 days, they can be terminated without another PIP opportunity to improve. Here is the post-PIP rule. Continue reading
Great article posted in the Washington Post by Ed O’Keefe on 1/23/12. It is another “gotta read” piece about the hypocrisy in Congress over raising enough money to fund the government—and federal employee raises. Continue reading
NTEU charged the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation with discriminating against its African-American employees and those 40 and over when it distributed performance awards. Last week an arbitrator agreed ruling that FDIC violated civil rights laws. Continue reading
News broke last week that retaliation against employees spiked last year. So, FEDSMILL.com thought it might be a good time to remind everyone what actions are considered retaliation and the options for dealing with it. Continue reading
In 1991 FLRA announced that management must provide unions free copies of an official transcript of an arbitration hearing. Continue reading