All Training Courses - FELTG (2024)

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UnCivil Servant: Holding Employees Accountable for Performance and Conduct

FELTG’s flagship courseUnCivil Servantempowers Federal supervisors and advisers to confidently handle the challenges that come with supervising in the Federal workplace. It shatters misconceptions about performance and misconduct-based actions and gives you simple step-by-step guidance for taking swift, appropriate, and legally defensible actions. Wednesday: Accountability for Conduct and Performance, Part …

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Everything You Need to Know About the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Has your agency received any Pregnant Workers Fairness Act claims? Are you even aware of your responsibilities under the PWFA? Does the act create a new EEO category? How do pregnancy protections under the PWFA differ from those under Title VII or the Americans with Disabilities Act? This training will …

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MSPB Law Week

Change happens in the world of Federal employee relations, and it often comes quickly. Those who succeed continuously sharpen their MSPB skills and refresh their knowledge. Those who don’t fall behind. FELTG’s MSPB Law Week provides an all-encompassing week of training that offers the most effective guidance and up-to-date information …

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Designing Inclusive, Healthy and Connected Workplaces Across a Distance

With more Federal employees working remotely, the nature of the Federal workplace has changed. This class will help you design work structures for wellbeing while cultivating a culture of civility and respect. This workshop will provide you with practical, easy-to-implement data-driven insights plus tools and resources that empower high-performing, engaged …

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EEOC Law Week

An increase in reasonable accommodation requests based on religion, disability, and pregnancy. A focus on DEIA. The usual areas of confusion, such as contractor complaints and mixed cases. FELTG’s EEOC Law Week runs the gamut of EEO issues, providing usable and up-to-date guidance for all practitioners, regardless of experience level. …

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FLRA Law Week

Anyone who has worked in Federal labor relations for any amount of time knows it’s an always-changing and ever-challenging field. It’s absolutely necessary to continually update and refresh your knowledge and skills. So why not get that important training from two instructors with a combined 40 years of experience working …

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Absence, Leave Abuse and Medical Issues Week

Whether you’re an HR professional, Employee Relations practitioner, EEO specialist, supervisor, or agency counsel, you have undoubtedly faced a leave-related challenge or two. And chances are, you may have struggled with some of the more complicated scenarios. Leave and medical issues create a complex and seemingly burdensome issue, one often …

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Setting the Bar: Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility for FY 2025

This half-day training provides the foundation you need to jumpstart your DEIA efforts or take them to the next level. We’ll examine biases and microaggressions, review why DEIA is important, and discuss how to create an inclusive workplace. You’ll leave this training session with what you need to know to …

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Conducting Effective Harassment Investigations

Investigating harassment in your agency can be an intimidating assignment, one that is rife with innuendo, conflicting accounts, and raw emotions. This course provides a successful and effective approach to conducting legally sufficient harassment investigations that provide the agency with the information it needs, while withstanding third-party scrutiny. Tuesday: Investigating …

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Do You Really Know How to Use the Douglas Factors?

It’s been over 40 years since we were all introduced to those 12 factors identified in the Merit System Protection Board’s landmarkDouglas v. VAdecision, the most cited case in Federal employment law history. Yet, look at any recent batch of MSPB decisions, and you’ll find continued confusion about how to …

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Get it Right the First Time: Accepting, Dismissing, and Framing EEO Claims

A surprisingly large number of agency dismissals are overturned by the EEOC each year – and a remand years after the events in question can equal big problems when it comes to the investigation. This class covers all you need to know on when to accept, when to dismiss, and …

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Responding Swiftly and Effectively to Inappropriate Sexual Conduct

Sexual harassment is a term of art that while easy to allege, isn’t always easy to prove. However, just because something may not rise to the level of Title VII sexual harassment, doesn’t mean it’s not inappropriate or that it should be tolerated in the workplace. FELTG President Deborah Hopkins, …

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All Clear? When Employee Security Clearances are Revoked or Suspended

If a Federal employee is required to have access to classified information, then the employee must be eligible for a security clearance in order to keep that position. What happens when the employee no longer has that clearance? This class will detail how to handle a security clearance suspension, revocation …

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Writing Final Agency Decisions

A Final Agency Decision is appealable, by the complainant, to the EEOC. And EEOC case law is filled with reversals of agency FADs that found no discrimination. This class will teach you how to write an effective and defensible FAD, which requires thorough knowledge and understanding of discrimination law, as …

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Clean Records, Last Rites, Last Chances, and Other Discipline Alternatives

Numerous pitfalls can derail an agency’s disciplinary action, whether it’s suspension, demotion, or removal – and even make a bad situation worse. The most “effective and efficient” approach isn’t always traditional disciplinary action. This two-hour training will explain why, how, and when to use numerous alternative actions, including not just …

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Bad Detective: The Mistakes That Hamper Agency Investigations

Maybe you envision yourself donning a Sherlock Holmes hat and cape. Or, perhaps, your model is the masterful Benoit Blanc of Knives Out Mystery fame. If only the work of a Federal administrative investigation was as easy as these fictional detectives make their jobs seem. Instead, there are more than …

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Example On-Demand Event: Employee Relations

Attorneys, HR/ER/LR Specialists and EEO practitioners will benefit from FELTG’s Employee Relations onsite training courses. Designed to provide practical guidance to help agency employees successfully navigate the world of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and related HR topics, these courses offer training on the most current, relevant performance, conduct, …

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5 Keys to Implementing and Managing a Successful Performance Demonstration Period

Every agency has employees who struggle with performance. There is a reliable solution for addressing unacceptable performance. A successful Performance Demonstrate Period (DP) will either lead to sustained improved performance or a defensible performance-based removal or demotion. This fast-paced class guides you through the critical steps to reaching that goal. …

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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 witnesshas a behavioral or mental health issue,or violent tendencies. This course will explaintemperamenttraits and personality disorders and provide a road map to help you understand how to get the …

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Misconduct Investigations: Get Them Right From the Start

Any effective misconduct investigation starts with a solid foundation of the law and an understanding of the full scope of your investigation. This class explains the principles that underpin a successful investigation of Federal employee misconduct, including harassment. You’ll leave with guidance on developing the investigation, from creating a plan …

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Bad Detective: The Mistakes That Hamper Agency Investigations

There are numerous examples of investigations that have gone awry. It could be an investigator’s failure to interview certain witnesses, a failure to take a complainant’s statement into account, or, perhaps, an action, such as a widely shared email, that shows a lack of objectivity. This course will provide guidance …

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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 well as what will happen if their performance becomes an issue. The course will also educate employees on the various …

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Understanding Behavioral Health Issues and Threats of Violence in the Federal Workplace

What are the warning signs that one of your coworkers may become violent? What’s the best way to intervene when you think a fellow employee is suicidal? If you’re a bystander during a behavioral or psychiatric crisis, what should you do – or not do – to keep yourself and …

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The High-performing Team

Does your agency or organization rely on teams to get mission-critical work accomplished? Then invest in this half-day training that helps teams leverage individual personality types and strengths to promote accurate communication, diminish unhealthy conflict, and increase individual and collective performance. The High-performing Team includes assessments, relevant articles and videos, …

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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 co-workers, then it also means you’re about to navigate the trickiest part of your career. This course is perfect those who have been promoted, or hope to be promoted at some point, and …

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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 decisions. The law under the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act and its Amendments Act will be explained …

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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 will provide employees a basic grasp of workplace harassment law, and most importantly, what they should do when they are …

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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 Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute says collective bargaining “safeguards the public interest,” “contributes to the effective conduct of public business,” …

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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 subordinates to do the same.” How should this be interpreted? Shallseems to be the critical word here. In this training, …

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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? This session will explain how the DouglasFactorscame about and provide a detailed look at the role thosefactorsplay in the arbitration …

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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 to be considered a formal discussion. It will also explore the union’s rights and responsibilities when it comes to meetings, …

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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. This course will take you through how to not only identify the applicable statutory provisions, but also provide practical and …

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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 anything. This training will provide you with key strategies and guidance to ensure you are well-equipped to begin negotiations and …

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Handling Union Requests for Information

Just about every Federal Labor Relations professional has dealt with a union request for information, but they may not have handled it correctly. This training will help anyone dealing with an information request to ensure the agency provides information that it owes the union, but also ensure that the unions …

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Labor Relations: Understanding Management and Employee Rights

Working in Labor Relations requires a firm foundation of the statute, historical perspective, and FLRA decisions, plus an understanding of agency and union rights and responsibilities. Whether you’re new to labor relations or looking for a refresher, this class will provide an overview of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute …

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Labor Relations: Understanding Unfair Labor Practices and Negotiability

5 U.S.C. § 7116(a) lists eight agency ULPs and 5 U.S.C. § 7116(b) lists eight labor organization ULPs, which will be covered in full detail during this class. This training will also include a discussion of employee rights vs. management rights, an overview of the Federal Service Impasses Panel, and …

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Fundamentals of Federal Labor Relations: Nuts and Bolts

Do you have someone on your staff who is working with unions for the first time? Do you have seasoned LR/ER practitioners looking for a refresher? Did employees in your organization recently organize and form a union, or change unions? This course will bring you immediately up to speed on …

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Handling Grievances and Arbitration

Arbitration in the Federal government is a very different process than in the private sector, and it requires an understanding of not only the collective bargaining agreement, but also the ability to interpret relevant Federal employment laws, regulations, and Executive Orders. Attendees will leave this training with an understanding of …

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Navigating Negotiability Issues

Negotiability may be the most complex topic in Federal sector labor relations, and an understanding of which topics are negotiable, and which topics are not, is fundamental to determining the legality of your negotiations and contract provisions. This immersion into negotiability will provide attendees a foundational knowledge of negotiability terminology, …

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Effective Negotiation Techniques and Strategies

It’s time for negotiations, and it’s critical not only that you know the current law, but that you have the right skills, and know how to choose wisely your words and your battles. This full-day training will cover it all — everything from understanding management rights and management maybes to …

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Labor Relations Meetings, Official Time, and ULPs

Not all meetings are created equally. In fact, some meetings can get your supervisors in trouble, despite their good intentions.This training will cover everything you need to know about meetings. Plus, we’ll discuss official time, identify unfair labor practices (ULPs), and discuss practical strategies along with common legal missteps when …

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Legal Writing Skills for LR Practitioners

Whether you’ve been to law school or not, you can always use a refresher on legal writing, especially if you work in the specialized and sometimes arcane-sounding world of Federal sector labor relations. In this interactive full-day class, FELTG’s experienced instructors will help you sharpen your skills and provide you …

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Damages and Remedies in Federal Sector EEO Cases

A fundamental rule in findings of discrimination is to, as nearly as possible, place the victim in theposition that personwould have occupied but for the discrimination. But how? There’s no way to undo the harm caused by illegal employment discrimination. That’s why every EEO practitioner needs to understand the concepts …

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Winning EEO Cases Through Summary Judgment

Unlike the MSPB, the EEOC allows parties to file motions for summary judgment, potentially eliminating the need for a time-consuming, expensive, and risky hearing. Yet, many agencies fail to take advantage of this opportunity. This training will explain the importance of the Report of Investigation and thorough discovery, the benefits …

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Navigating the Morass of Mixed Cases

Few things create as much confusion among even experienced Federal attorneys, EEO specialists, or HR professionals as mixed cases. FELTG is here to help. This training untangles this often-complicated area when MSPB and EEOC both have potential jurisdiction over a case. What do you do when a mixed case lands …

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These are the Cases You Really Should Settle

We get it. You don’t want to look like you did something wrong. But here’s the thing: Settling a case does not mean there were flaws in your case, nor is it an admittance of liability or wrongdoing. This training will explain why so many disputes are settled and why …

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What Exactly is Undue Hardship Anymore?

The Supreme Court upended decades of precedent in its unanimous 2023 decision Groff v. DeJoy. It’s a big change for the concept of undue hardship in religious accommodation, according to some experts – but not not to others. Plus, there’s also an undue hardship standard in disability accommodation cases and …

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Discovery Done Right: Avoiding Sanctions Before the MSPB and EEOC

Discovery is a critical and effective part of any litigation – when conducted properly. Annoying and abusive discovery techniques could have negative consequences, and possibly even lead to sanctions. From disrespect and profanity in depositions to the other party refusing to produce requested documents, it’s important to be prepared for …

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Handling Cases Before the MSPB, the EEOC, and in Arbitration: Best Practices for Representatives

Litigating cases in Federal sector employment law is a unique prospect and isn’t for the unprepared. In addition, taking a case to arbitration is also a world of its own. This training focuses on providing tips to practice effectively and successfully in administrative hearings before the MSPB, EEOC, and in …

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Hearing Advocacy: Presenting Cases Before the MSPB and EEOC

Whether you’re representing your agency before the Merit Systems Protection Board or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, there is one ultimate goal: Win the case. This interactive course will prepare you for these kinds of hearings. Part 1: Developing a Theory In this session you’ll learn strategies for developing a …

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