CLE Credit

Continuing Legal Education sign-in sheets are available at seminars. However, application to individual state bar associations for credit is the responsibility of the participant. Upon request, FELTG will assist with CLE applications.

Parking/Metro

The last time we checked, some of the least expensive parking available was three blocks away at Books A Million, 11 DuPont Circle Northwest. The DuPont Circle Metro station is about three blocks away, as well.

Accommodations

All travel arrangements and expenses are your responsibility. A limited number of discount rooms are available to FELTG students through the Carlyle Suites Hotel, near ISH at 2505 Wisconsin Ave., NW. Go to carlylesuites.com and click on “Reservations” then “Preferred Rates”, and enter the pass code “FELTG5″ — then click “OK” and [...]

Venue Note

All 2010 seminars will be held at:

International Student House, Ella Burling Hall
1825 R Street NW
Washington, DC (near DuPont Circle)

Ella Burling Hall is in what was once a 19th century private mansion. FELTG and ISH are working hard to insure the facility is fully ADA compliant. However, renovating older buildings does not always go as planned. [...]

Cancellation Policy

FELTG reserves the right to cancel a session, or make changes, upon notice. Confirmed registrants may cancel no later than the close of business on the date shown below:

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, [...]

Top Five Adverse-Action Mistakes Supervisors Make (Over and Over)

No sane supervisor likes to suspend or terminate an employee. However, sometimes it needs to be done, and it is the ineffective supervisor who does not implement discipline when needed. Supervisors who manage a misbehaving employee need to be aware of the top mistakes that are made in this area, or risk having the employee [...]

5 CFR 412

Back in 1977, I got my first job in government human resources because of a mandatory training requirement.  At that time, the old Civil Service Commission (the predecessor to the Office of Personnel Management) had a regulation in place that required that all federal supervisors receive 40 hours of training in the supervision of federal [...]

On-Site Training 101

Although we at FELTG present a large number of open-enrollment seminars, our pride and joy – and frankly the work we do that is most rewarding – is working directly with agencies (and sometimes unions) to present customized, on-site presentations aimed directly at the specific needs of the client.
The in-house training process starts with a [...]

Upcoming Spring Seminar What’s New?

Our spring flyers will hit government desks soon, and I’m very much excited about some of the additions and improvements we’ve made for 2010:

Ernie Hadley has been added to the “Medical Issues and Leave Abuse” session of MSPB Law Week to bring an expanded perspective based on the ever-popular confusion between the EEOC and OPM [...]

Emerging Issues in Federal Employment Law

Recently, former chief EEOC administrative judge Gary Gilbert and I sat down with moderator Ernie Hadley for a discussion on when agencies can require employees to undergo medical examinations, and what can be done with the results of those examinations.  We felt the discussion was necessary because the two agencies that write regulations in this [...]

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