With the current push for federal employees to return to on-site work, agencies are caught between meeting RTO requirements and federal employees who claim their disabilities prevent them from returning to the workplace. This webinar will help your agency in its RTO efforts without violating the Rehabilitation Act by unlawfully denying reasonable accommodation.
Covering telework as the most common reasonable accommodation request, attorney Deryn Sumner will outline the process for determining when full-time telework should be offered as a reasonable accommodation. You’ll also explore issues related to denying full-time telework, including alternative accommodations of hybrid work and situational telework, complete with case examples. Also supported by case examples, you’ll learn about accommodation options for on-site work, such as worksite changes and job restructuring.
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Deryn Sumner, Esq., is a Partner at Gilbert Employment Law, as well as Co-Chair of the firm's Federal Sector EEOC Practice Group. She focuses her practice on representing federal employees and agencies before the EEOC and has worked on hundreds of cases involving claims of employment discrimination on the basis of disability, race, age, religion, retaliation, and other bases. She also has experience representing employees and agencies in cases of whistleblower retaliation and adverse action challenges before the MSPB. Ms. Sumner is the co-author of several books on federal sector employment law.
Properly selecting and framing the charge is the key to a successful federal disciplinary case. And since you can’t undo a charge, it must be done correctly from the start or your entire case is at risk. Learn directly from a former MSPB administrative judge and EEOC supervisory attorney how to put together proper charges in MSPB cases — the critical first step in making your agency’s discipline stick.
Expert Sam Vitaro will review seminal cases and recent MSPB decisions which govern how charges should be selected and framed — teaching you the right actions to take and mistakes to avoid.
You’ll also gain tips to help ensure charges are upheld on appeal, including how to provide notice to the employee, keep the charges concise, and consider alternative charges. Along with learning the importance of the wording of a charge, including the label, you’ll gain best practices to
Sam Vitaro is a Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Fact-Finder in private practice. He is a former Administrative Judge with the Merit Systems Protection Board where he decided disputes involving disciplinary matters and EEO claims. Prior to that he served as a supervisory trial lawyer with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Mr. Vitaro is the co-author of MSPB Charges and Penalties, A Charging Manual, the most trusted resource on the subject, which has just published its 12th edition and is available in digital format exclusively on cyberFEDS®.