Federal Labor-Management Relations: Working Together to Safeguard the Public Interest
Why are labor-management relations perpetually adversarial? Are agencies and unions supposed to be working together, or against each other? How can both sides get along better, as Congress intended? The […]
What’s the Difference Between a Formal Discussion and a Weingarten Meeting?
This course will discuss when the law requires you to provide the union an opportunity to be involved in agency meetings with employees, focusing on the requirements for a meeting […]
Workplace Investigations: Successfully Interviewing Witnesses With Mental and Behavioral Health Conditions
The most difficult and unpredictable part of the workplace investigation – conducting the interview – can be especially challenging when the witness has a behavioral or mental health condition, or […]
The Civil Civil Servant: Protections, Performance, and Conduct
This class provides attendees with a full understanding of their rights and responsibilities as Federal employees. Employees will learn about the merit system principles, EEO, whistleblower, and retaliation protections, as […]
The High-performing Team
Does your agency or organization rely on teams to get mission-critical work accomplished? Then invest in this training that helps teams leverage individual personality types and strengths to promote accurate […]
Mindset Matters: Making the Transition from Individual Contributor to Supervisor
Receiving a promotion is a career highlight. However, if that promotion means you’re now supervising your former coworkers, then it also means you’re about to navigate the trickiest part of […]
Understanding Reasonable Accommodation for Disabilities
This course will provide employees with answers to their most perplexing questions about reasonable accommodation. They’ll leave with a firm grasp on the how and why of agency reasonable accommodation […]
Preventing Workplace Harassment
In recent years, harassment in the workplace has become more public than ever before. And when left unaddressed, it’s one of the top reasons agencies lose good employees. This course […]
Mandatory Permissive Bargaining: What Does That Really Mean?
Executive Order 14003 rescinded limitations on collective bargaining and instructed agency leaders that they “shall elect to negotiate over the subjects set forth in 5 USC 7106(b)(1) and shall instruct […]
The Role of the Douglas Factors in Arbitration
Did you know that an arbitrator, much like a Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) judge, has the authority to mitigate a penalty if it is outside the bounds of reasonableness? […]
Who’s In, Who’s Out? Understanding Bargaining Unit Exclusions
The Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute defines the types of positions that must be excluded from the bargaining units. But in the modern workforce, those definitions aren’t always entirely clear. […]
Preparing to Bargain
Whether you’re currently preparing to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement, or if it’s a year down the road, now is always the best time to ensure that you’re ready for […]