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Federal agencies should take swift action against employees who have excessive absences, but proper steps must be taken. This interactive webinar will help you handle employees’ excessive absences while staying compliant with requirements set by the MSPB and the courts — including the most recent Williams and Butler cases that have changed the rules on how agencies must proceed.

Leave expert Barbara Haga will explain how excessive absences cases arise and how your agency should address them to satisfy procedural requirements, providing specifics on handling telework and remote work situations; common leave situations including annual leave, sick leave, and leave without pay; and situations you see less frequently, such as donated leave, court leave, and military leave.

Gain this expert’s guidance to:

• Issue a Cook warning letter that complies with current case law requirements
• Determine which absences can be relied upon to support a charge of excessive approved leave, in light of the Williams case
• Understand why 25 days of absences are not enough to support a charge of excessive absence under Butler
• Evaluate cases of excessive absences by employees who are using leave as a reasonable accommodation
• Avoid taking unlawful action against employees who are using long or intermittent FMLA leave periods
• And more

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Meet Your Trainer

Barbara Haga is the president of Federal HR Services, Inc., which provides HR training, consulting, and functional services to federal agencies. She previously served as the Head of Organizational Development and Workforce Relations for NASA Langley Research Center, with responsibility for Center training programs, the Career Transition Assistance Program, and employee and labor relations and benefits functions. Prior to NASA, she worked with the Department of Navy, where her responsibilities encompassed assignments at HRO Norfolk, the Office of Civilian Personnel Management, and the Human Resources Service Center East.

Ms. Haga has had experience in all HR functional areas including delivery of numerous courses and presentations for managers and HR professionals. Her primary areas of expertise are in employee and labor relations, including performance appraisal, dealing with performance and conduct deficiencies, and grievances and appeals.

Ms. Haga writes the regular “Leave Advisor” column for cyberFEDS^® and is a popular presenter at the annual FDR Training conference on HR, leave, and performance management topics.

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Who Should Attend

• HR practitioners and specialists
• Leave administration professionals
• Employee Relations professionals
• Labor Relations professionals
• Attorneys handling HR, leave, and discipline cases
• Union reps
• Outside counsel who represent employees

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Registration Information Main Site (required for Additional Site registrations): $295 per connection
Additional Site for Teleworker: $115 per connection
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President Trump has made federal civil service reform a top priority, already instituting big federal workforce changes that will require a lot of compliance work by agency HR, EEO, LR/ER, and legal offices. Understand the new rules and how they impact your agency and office by attending this live, interactive webinar with expert Debra D’Agostino.

You’ll get straightforward explanations of up-to-the-minute administration actions, plus guidance you can use related to federal workforce restructuring and meeting your agencies’ new requirements involving:

• Directives for agencies to furlough employees and prepare for "large-scale" RIF initiatives
• The return to office mandate, with explanation of the differences between a teleworker and a remote worker
• Schedule Policy/Career and its new job classification in excepted service that will change the federal workforce
• The termination of federal employee DEIA training and other DEI programs plus Executive Orders 13988 and 14035
• Measures to streamline the federal employee discipline process that may make it simpler to remove certain employees

You’ll leave equipped to implement new federal sector workforce initiatives, review your agency’s existing policies for alignment with these initiatives, and to flag high-priority workforce policies for further future action.

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Meet Your Trainer

Debra D’Agostino, a Founding Partner of the Federal Practice Group and leader of the firm’s federal employment law team, focuses on providing representation to federal employees worldwide in a wide range of matters against federal agencies, including EEO complaints and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) hearings, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) appeals, U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) complaints, and replying to proposed adverse actions or disciplinary actions. She has more than 20 years of experience in this complicated area of the law and has obtained successful outcomes for her clients, including findings of liability in discrimination claims and reversals of adverse actions such as removals. Additionally, Ms. D’Agostino has represented clients in appellate matters before the EEOC’s Office of Federal Operations, the MSPB, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal, Fourth, and D.C. Circuits.

Ms. D’Agostino is a popular presenter of LRP Federal Webinars and is a frequent speaker at LRP’s annual FDR Training attended by federal government employees from agencies nationwide.

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Who Should Attend

• Every federal professional whose responsibilities involve HR, EEO, ER, LR, or legal issues

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Registration Information Main Site (required for Additional Site registrations): $295 per connection
Additional Site for Teleworker: $115 per connection
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OPM issuing new federal leave-related guidance on Day 1 of President Trump’s second term indicates that leave administration is now a high priority. And with new Administrative Leave Act regulations having taken effect January 16, it’s essential that federal practitioners understand these new requirements and how to implement them.

Get up to speed quickly during this webinar with expert Robert Erbe, as he breaks down how the new regulations significantly change the methods in which your agency can place an employee in a paid non-duty status. You’ll also learn about the five new categories of leave that agencies must use to record administrative, investigative, and notice leave; how the new regulations impact the way you conduct investigations and process adverse actions; and what should — and shouldn’t — be included in your agency’s policy under the new regulations.

Plus, you’ll leave with best practices to:

• Consider the “baseline factors” before placing an employee in a paid non-duty status
• Identify situations in which your agency is precluded from using administrative leave
• Use telework as a tool for administering administrative leave in appropriate situations
• Properly record the use of administrative, investigative, and notice leave
• And more!

Q&A time will follow the presentation so you can ask Mr. Erbe your specific questions!

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Meet Your Trainer

Attorney Robert Erbe has been practicing federal sector labor and employment law for more than 20 years. Currently, he is in private practice primarily representing the National Border Patrol Council. During his federal service, he handled more than 100 MSPB appeals for numerous agencies. He is considered an expert on the Douglas factors as well as MSPB practice and procedure. He also writes the “Discipline Advisor” column for cyberFEDS^®. He is an Advisory Board member and regular presenter at the annual FDR Training^SM for federal practitioners and is an attendee-favorite presenter of LRP’s Federal Webinars.

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Who Should Attend

• Employee relations specialists
• Labor relations specialists
• HR specialists
• Agency attorneys
• Union/employee representatives

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Registration Information Main Site (required for Additional Site registrations): $295 per connection
Additional Site for Teleworker: $115 per connection
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