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MSPB Law Week Daily Agenda 2010

• 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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• MSPB Law Week: February 26, 2010
• Advocacy Week: March 19, 2010
• Specialty Practices Week: April 2, 2010
• EEOC Law Week: April 16, 2010
• FLRA Law Week: May 7, 2010
• Civil Service Institute: May 21, 2010

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