Civil Service Week
January 30 - February 3, 2012
With an interdisciplinary approach, this week has something for everybody. Start with mastering the legal fundamentals of the MSPB, the EEOC and the FLRA, This course is a must for anyone new to federal sector employment law, anyone looking to expand their professional horizons or anyone who simply wants a better understanding of how these three agencies that are an integral part of federal sector employment law work. After the basics comes two session designed to put you in the know on the very latest developments in the ADA, GINA and the entire federal sector employment law field.
Feedback from spring training attendees:
"I like the small class groups vs. the larger 100-200 settings”
“Very intelligently presented; lucid and informative. Oh! Also entertaining!”
Location
Marines' Memorial Club & Hotel, 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102-1077, right off Union Square
Who Should Attend
Attorneys, employee and labor relations specialists, EEO specialists, and human resources generalists, etc. CLE credit for attorney attendees is supported by FELTG through individual applications to the registrants' state bar or commission.
Instructors
William Wiley, Ernest Hadley and Gary Gilbert
Status
Tuition
Five days = $1950
Four days = $1570
Three days = $1220
Two days = $850
One day = $470
Civil Service Week Daily Agenda 2012
Monday, January 30 - Basic MSPB: Nuts & Bolts: 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, January 31 - Basic EEOC: Nuts & Bolts: Statutory authority and jurisdiction of EEOC, theories of discrimination, overview of EEO process, amended and consolidated complaints; timeliness issues in the wake of the Supreme Court decisions in Morgan and Ledbetter and the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Wednesday, February 1 - Basic FLRA: Nuts and Bolts: An overview of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, fundamental employee, union, and management rights, Weingarten meetings and a bargaining unit employee's right to be represented by the union in certain investigations.
Thursday, February 2 - The New ADA & GINA: What You Need to Know: Important enough that it's worth repeating. What do the ADA Amendments Act and the EEOC's new regulations mean to you? Find out in a session that cover it all from what it now means to be an individual with a disability, the new major life activities and substantial limitation standard and, perhaps the most important ADA amendment, the new standards for being regarded as having a disability. Also, a session on understanding the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
Friday, February 3 - Developments in Federal Sector Employment Law: Get the very latest on the MSPB, EEOC, FLRA, OSC & OPM. Whether new legislation, regulations, case law, Executive Orders or policy initiatives, this is the session that covers all the bases.