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Deryn Sumner

Return to On-Site Work:
Getting Reasonable Accommodation Right for Federal Employees With Disabilities
Presented by Deryn Sumner, Esq.
Wednesday | April 24, 2024 • 12 - 1:30 p.m. ET

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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.

You’ll leave with best practices to:

  • Use the interactive process effectively to find a reasonable accommodation
  • Determine if, and what, medical information (or more medical information) should be requested to address an accommodation request
  • Assess whether telework is the only effective accommodation or if an employee can be effectively accommodated on-site
  • Determine that a requested accommodation is an undue hardship and defend that decision on review
  • Apply recent EEOC decisions to employees’ requests for reasonable accommodation
  • And more!

Meet Your Trainer

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.


Who Should Attend
  • Disability program managers
  • EEO program officials
  • Reasonable accommodation practitioners
  • EEO directors and civil rights practitioners
  • Attorneys
  • EEO specialists
  • EEO counselors
  • Agency representatives
  • HR professionals

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

Selecting and Framing Federal Employee Disciplinary Charges: Keys for Success
Presented by Sam Vitaro, Esq.
Wednesday | May 29, 2024 • 12 - 1:30 p.m. ET

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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

  • Select a charge that fits the facts of the misconduct, not the other way around
  • Follow the best path for success by establishing a proper charge from the start
  • Identify which common charges have an intent element which must be separately proved
  • Comply with due process requirements when it comes to charge selection
  • And more!

Meet Your Trainer

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®.


Who Should Attend
  • Agency attorneys
  • Employee relations specialists
  • Labor relations specialists
  • Deciding officials
  • HR specialists
  • Union/employee representatives

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