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MSPB Law Week |
On-Line
Registration with credit card payment, or
PRINTABLE REGISTRATION form for SF-182
invoicing, by FAX OR MAIL |
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Registrations are accepted
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED and must be
accompanied by a method of payment. There are no
'placeholders'.
Early Registration is strongly advised as each seminar
has a maximum capacity.
This program has SOLD OUT
each time it has been offered.
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Dates: |
March 29 - April 2, 2010 |
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Location: |
International
Student House
Ella Burling Hall
1825 R Street NW
Washington, DC
in the DuPont Circle neighborhood
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Venue Note: |
Ella Burling Hall is in what was a
private mansion. FELTG and ISH are working hard to
insure it is fully ADA compliant by spring. But,
renovating older buildings does not always go as
planned. If you have an accessibility issue, please let
us know at least two weeks in advance of the seminar you
plan to attend so we may insure that alternative
arrangements are in place for you. |
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Who Should Attend: |
Attorneys, employee and
labor relations specialists, human resources
generalists, union representatives, and others
with a responsibility for representing either
the agency or an appellant in an appeal filed
with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board or
advising management or employees on rights and
options relative to disciplinary and performance
actions. CLE credit for attorney attendees is
supported by FELTG through individual
applications to the registrants' state bar or
commission. |
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Instructors: |
Peter Broida, Renn Fowler
and William Wiley, with guest Ernest Hadley for
Medical Issues on Thursday. |
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Status: |
Accepting Registrations.
This seminar sells out early.
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Fee: |
All five days =
$1900,
four days
= $1520, three days = $1170,
two days =
$800, and one day = $420. |
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Brochure: |
See
LINK |
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Program Description |
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MSPB Law Week covers the bases of charges,
penalties and performance cases, with special emphasis
on leave abuse and medical issues. Join three top MSPB
practitioners and topic authors, and learn the law,
strategies and techniques from their many years of
combined experience. |
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Daily Agenda |
Monday, March 29 -- William Wiley.
Adverse Actions: The five elements of every
disciplinary case and the burdens of proof, the
fundamentals of penalty selection and defense, obtaining
testimony to protect the penalty selection should one or
more charges fail, types of evidence necessary to
support a penalty selection, the MSPB’s power to
mitigate a penalty and recent trends in the Board’s use
of that authority, educating uninformed arbitrators,
using alternatives to discipline.
Tuesday, March 30 -- Renn Fowler and William
Wiley. Charges: Types of charges, parts of a charge,
how charges are interpreted, the role of the proposing
and deciding officials, capitalizing on the general
charge, allowing the inclusion of lesser-included
offenses, charging in the alternative, attractive
options to difficult charges and common charging
mistakes, proving the difficult “intent” charge
element, a step by step approach to charge drafting,
practical exercises to develop charge framing skills.
Wednesday, March 31 -- Renn Fowler and William
Wiley. Penalties:
MSPB and Federal Circuit lead cases in
penalty determination, getting “intent” penalties off of
“non-intent” charges, proving harsh penalties off of
vanilla charges, charging down and proving up, how the
maximum penalty is established, an update of recent
Board and court decisions: what’s really new and what’s
old wine in new bottles, placing the emphasis on notice.
Thursday, April 1 -- Ernest Hadley and
William Wiley. Leave Abuse
and Medical Issues: Overview of
federal laws and entitlements, documenting AWOL and
subsequent discipline; FMLA rights and abuses,
approved leave terminations,
unavailability for work and inability to maintain a
regular schedule. Medical inability-to-perform
terminations, disability retirement. "True" disability
vs. non-disability medical problems; limitations on Fitness
for Duty Exam
authority.
Friday, April 2 -- Peter Broida and William Wiley. Unacceptable
Performance: Performance actions in
perspective; drafting a defensible
performance standard, implementing PIP's, defeating the
PIP rollercoaster, accommodating disability-related poor
performance, converting an unacceptable performance
problem into a Part 752 disciplinary action, termination
based on failing a performance quiz.
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Making an 'Individual CLE Application' to your state bar
or commission? See
MSPB CLE Sample
from a prior
seminar, for PDF file responsive to most requests,
including speaker biographies, table of contents and
timed agendas, and a representative sample of
instructional handouts.
Each day begins at 8:30 and ends at 4:00 with an hour
for lunch. Continental breakfast is served beginning at
8:00. |
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| Cancellation |
FELTG reserves the right to
cancel a session, or make changes, upon notice.
Confirmed registrants may only cancel for MSPB Week
prior to COB Feb. 26, 2010. Substitutions may be made at
any time with notice to FELTG, but are limited to one
sub filling in the original registrants' seminar dates.
Untimely cancellations are only eligible for 'credit
slips' for a future registration, provided notice is
given before the start of training, but will not be
granted for partial attendance. Credit slips will
not be granted for 'no-shows'. |
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