Register now for Federal Employment Law Training Group’s upcoming 2012 seminars and receive the most broad-based, in-depth instruction in federal employment law available anywhere. FELTG’S sessions cover all major areas of the law of the federal workplace and are tailored for attorneys, HR, ER or EEO specialists, union representatives, managers and other practitioners who need a firm foundation in federal employment and labor law. FELTG has developed an integrated curriculum of seminars designed to provide the federal employment law practitioner with multi-level instruction from basic adjudicatory forum information to the most advanced advocacy skills.
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The Federal Employment Law Training Group is dedicated to providing employment law training for the federal government community. FELTG’s comprehensive educational seminars cover a wide range of employment law and federal personnel law issues including EEOC and MSPB precedent and procedures, labor relations and FLRA law, ADA updates, whistleblower retaliation claims, administrative litigation techniques, FMLA and arbitration.
FELTG’s principal instructors are practicing attorneys in the area of federal employment law. Each has over 25 years of experience in the field, and all have represented both employees and agencies in hearings and appeals before EEOC, MSPB, FLRA and in arbitrations.
In addition to these semi-annual open-enrollment seminars offered in Washington, D.C. and new San Francisco summer and winter sessions, custom on-site training is available in all employment law subjects, including training for supervisors and managers on best personnel practices in the workplace.
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EEOC Law Week -- now taking registrations!
April 2 - 6, 2012
This series provides an in depth look at EEOC, current trends in EEO Law, The Rehabilitation Act, and the NEW Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodating individuals with disabilities, alternative dispute resolution, selection, promotion and discipline and mixed cases.
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FLRA Law Week -- now taking registrations!
April 23 - 27, 2012
This session covers labor relations, unfair labor practices, organization of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, and negotiation techniques. This new offering covers all the basics of labor arbitration, including a brief history and a live demonstration of arbitration. Speakers include William Wiley and Peter Broida.
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Absence & Medical Issues Week
June 4 - 8, 2012
The newest addition to FELTG’s curriculum, this week brings together everything involving one of the most complex areas of federal sector employment law: absences from the workplace. Topics include employee leave, leave abuse, and medical issues as they relate to unacceptable performance and conduct, sick leave, annual leave, leave without pay, absence without leave, FMLA, ADA, OWCP, flexiplace-this week has it all. Train with experts William Wiley, Ernest Hadley, Gary Gilbert and FELTG guest, Carl Bosland.
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Legal Writing Week
June 18 - 22, 2012
This expansion of our newest and most popular course now offers three days of training, starting off with the fundamentals of good legal writing and building on those skills with sessions on drafting specific documents for the MSPB and EEOC, present by the experts, Ernest Hadley and William Wiley. This training series covers topics such as legal writing compared to other writing, IRAC technique, writing from the readers’ perspective, organizational logic, citation formats, legal precedent and research.
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MSPB Law Week, in San Francisco -- now taking registrations!
June 25 - 29, 2012
As frequently requested, this FELTG favorite is coming to the West Coast! Clear up MSPB confusion with the ever-popular MSPB Law Week. This session covers all aspects of discipline and performance cases with emphasis on leave abuse and medical issues. Topics include adverse action, charges, penalties, leave abuse and medical issue, and unacceptable performance.
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Fall D.C. Open-Enrollment tentative dates:
MSPB Law Week, Sept. 17 - 21
EEOC Law Week, Oct. 1 - 5
Hearing Advocacy Week, Oct. 22 - 26
FLRA Law Week, Dec. 3 - 7