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Federal Employment Law Training Group
Training by Professionals for Professionals
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The Federal Employment Law
Training Group is dedicated to
providing quality employment law
training to the federal government
community. FELTG’s comprehensive
seminars cover a wide range of
federal employment and personnel
law issues including EEOC and
MSPB precedent and procedures,
labor relations and FLRA law, ADA
updates, whistleblower retaliation
claims, legal writing, administrative
litigation techniques, FMLA,
arbitration and supervisor
training. FELTG instructors have
years of experience in the field,
and represent employees and
agencies in hearings and appeals
before EEOC, MSPB, FLRA and in
arbitration.
FELTG also provides training
webinars on specialized topics,
for practitioners and supervisors.
Custom onsite training is also
available in all employment
law subjects, including courses
for federal supervisors on best
practices, employee accountability,
and performance management.
FELTG’s 2015 Course Curriculum
For more information, visit our
website at www.feltg.com.
New for 2015 is FELTG’s Practitioner
Certification Program. For participants
in our week-long open-enrollment
seminars, FELTG offers certification as
a trained practitioner in the following
areas of federal employment law:
• MSPB Law
• FLRA Law
• EEOC Law
• Hearing Practices
FELTG LLC is a Maryland Limited Liability
Company doing business as the Federal
Employment Law Training Group.
William Wiley, President
Deborah Hopkins, Executive Director
The Federal Employment Law Training
Group meets the training needs
of federal employment and labor
law practitioners, HR, ER, LR and
EEO directors and specialists, union
representatives and managers at all
levels of experience, with the finest
training available.
Just imagine how this credential will set
you apart from your peers. Check out
the inside of this schedule for details.
In addition to our open enrollment
programs, we continue to provide
training through webinars and onsite
seminars. And, DVDs of past webinars
are available in our web store.
Also launching in 2015 is a ten-part
webinar training series specifically for
federal supervisors, Supervising Federal
Employees: The Skills You’ll Need to
Succeed. Sessions begin April 14. See
inside for details.
We are excited about what this year has
in store. We hope you’ll join us!
Absence & Medical
Issues Week:
Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2015 (Washington, DC)
EEOC Law Week
June 22-26, 2015 (San Francisco)
Sept. 21-26, 2015 (Washington, DC)
This week addresses one of the most complex
areas of federal sector employment law:
absences from the workplace. Topics include
employee leave, leave abuse and medical
issues related to unacceptable performance
and conduct, plus an in-depth
discussion of those difficult medical
documentation issues.
FELTG instructors and distinguished guest
speakers draw on many years of experience
and perspectives to provide both the beginner
and the seasoned practitioner with the
foundation and detailed knowledge to work
successfully in the field of federal EEO law.
Instructors: William Wiley, Ernest Hadley,
Gary Gilbert, Barbara Haga
MONDAY EEOC Nuts & Bolts: The
Basics: Statutory authority and
jurisdiction of EEOC; theories of
discrimination; overview of the EEO
process; amended and consolidated
complaints; timeliness issues in the
wake of the Supreme Court decisions in
Morgan and Ledbetter.
MONDAY Leave Use & Abuse
Overview: Types of leave and leave
entitlements; overview of Family and
Medical Leave Act absences; reasonable
accommodation and the interactive
process; medical determinations; leave
abuse; related offenses; controlling
principles from case law.
TUESDAY FMLA Law & Policy: A detailed
look at FMLA; military family leave;
serious health condition developments;
medical certification issues; managing
intermittent FMLA leave; discipline;
FMLA and the under-performer;
employee notice issues.
WEDNESDAY Medical Issues Under the
ADA & GINA: The ADA Amendments
Act and its impact on the collection of
employee medical information; preand post-employment medical exams
and inquiries; conditional employment
offers; medical documentation requests
for reasonable accommodation; direct
threat; the “regarded as” provision of
the ADA.
THURSDAY Labor Relations & OWCP:
The impact of collective bargaining
on
leave-related issues; negotiability of
leave proposals; relevant rulings from
the Federal
Labor Relations Authority
and the Federal Service Impasses Panel;
leave entitlement; medical issues
and modified job offers in workers’
compensation claims; misconduct
related to OWCP abuse.
FRIDAY Approved Absences
Management: Alternative and
compressed work schedules; telework;
leave as a reasonable accommodation
for disabilities; leave as a religious
accommodation; monitoring employee
performance and conduct away from
the worksite.
Instructors: Ernest Hadley, Gary Gilbert,
Deryn Sumner
TUESDAY Current Trends in EEO Law:
The latest on what’s happening in EEO;
hostile environment harassment; gender
stereotyping; same-sex harassment;
sexual orientation and transgender
discrimination; retaliation; national
origin; religious discrimination.
WEDNESDAY Accommodating
Individuals with Disabilities: The
Rehabilitation Act; the Americans
with Disabilities Act; the latest of
revised ADA regulations; the Genetic
Information Nondiscrimination Act
(GINA) regulations; defining individuals
with disabilities, major life activities and
substantial limitations; essential job
functions; the interactive process; types
of reasonable accommodation.
THURSDAY Damages & Remedies;
Settlement & ADR: Overview of
equitable remedies: back pay, front
pay, reinstatement; non-pecuniary and
pecuniary damages; past and future
damages; damages offsets; the duty to
mitigate damages; collateral sources
and pre-existing conditions; multiple
causations of harm; the eggshell
complainant; settlement and ADR
processes; what constitutes a good
written agreement.
FRIDAY Selection, Promotion, Discipline
& Mixed Cases - An In-Depth Look:
“Mixed” cases; selection and promotion
cases; subjective and objective
criteria; the “best qualified” candidate;
disciplinary overview; the “comparable”
employee; defending against pretext.
Employee Relations
Week
July 27-31, 2015 (Washington, DC)
During this week students will learn to identify the
laws, regulations and policies associated with job
functions, and will demonstrate understanding of
the relationship that exists between the ER function
and the broader HR function. They will also learn
to utilize specific tools and methods to assist and
advise management.
Instructor: Barbara Haga
MONDAY Introduction to Employee
Relations: Functions, key terms and
concepts; intersection of Employee
Relations and Labor Relations; merit
system principles; hours of work; modified
schedules; overtime; types of leave.
TUESDAY Leave Administration:
Introduction to Family and
Medical Leave Act (FMLA); medical
documentation; military leave;
administrative leave; performance
management appraisal periods;
monitoring performance; grievances and
appeals; 432 actions.
WEDNESDAY Performance Issues;
Introduction to EEO: Performance plans;
performance measures; employee
recognition; Employee Assistance
Programs (EAPs); introduction to
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO):
framework and disparate impact.
THURSDAY Discipline Issues: Discipline
overview; responsibilities of HR and
supervisors; adverse actions; penalties;
alternative discipline; standards of
proof; harmful error; specific disciplinary
situations; methods of dispute
resolution.
FRIDAY Employee Relations Potpourri:
Separations; retirement; involuntary
actions; medical issues: qualification
and documentations; reasonable
accommodation; drug testing; roles and
responsibilities of HR in the process.
FLRA Law Week
FELTG Practitioner Certification Program
June 1-5, 2015 (Washington, DC)
November 16-20, 2015 (Washington, DC)
For participants in our week-long open-enrollment seminars, FELTG offers
certification as a trained practitioner in the following specialized areas of
federal employment law:
This week of federal sector labor relations
training takes the participant through the
issues involved in the foundations of employee
and union rights, as well as the changes we
might see in the future. During this program,
FELTG instructors and special guest speakers
help prepare participants to successfully
navigate potential bargaining expansions.
Instructors: William Wiley, Sue McCluskey
MONDAY Basic Management &
Employee Rights: An overview of the
Federal Service Labor-Management
Relations Statute; fundamental
employee, union, and management
rights; Weingarten meetings; a
bargaining unit employee’s right to be
represented; formal discussions.
TUESDAY Information Requests, Official
Time & ULPs: Agency obligations
to
provide the union information; use of
government time to conduct union
responsibilities; unfair labor practices;
legal requirements; practical strategies.
WEDNESDAY Investigations, Grievances
& Negotiability: The FLRA litigation
process; intersection among grievances;
MSPB appeals and EEO complaints;
what subjects must be bargained; what
subjects may and may not be bargained.
THURSDAY I & I Bargaining, Principle
Bargaining Topics & Negotiation
Strategies: Management’s right to
act, while satisfying the obligation to
negotiate impact and implementation;
difficult topics that repeatedly arise; good
and bad ways to implement bargaining.
FRIDAY Grievance Arbitration: Invoking
arbitration under the collective
bargaining agreement; the arbitration
process; researching and selecting an
arbitrator; rules of evidence compared
to MSPB and EEOC; how government
arbitration is different from private sector
arbitration; educating the arbitrator.
MSPB Law · FLRA Law · EEOC Law · Hearing Practices
Frankly, we had hoped that the Office of Personnel Management would offer
this certification, or perhaps one or more of the oversight agencies as part of
their mandatory outreach programs. However, as we have been unsuccessful
at convincing The Powers That Be that continuing education and testing in
this field is vital and in the best interests of America, we have decided to do it
ourselves. Here’s how it works:
• The program is open to all attorneys, human resources and EEO specialists,
and union officials who participate in all five days of one of the four weeklong open enrollment seminars listed above.
• In the first day of the program, each seminar participant will be given the
choice as to whether to become a candidate for certification, or to forego
the opportunity and to complete the program without the certification
option.
• Those who choose to become candidates will participate as is usual in our
seminars. The primary difference is that at the end of each day, for those
who have chosen to become certification candidates, our instructors will
administer a written test covering the topics that were presented during
that day.
• Candidates who successfully complete each of the five daily tests will
receive a special “Certified Practitioner” certificate and lapel pen at the end
of the program to denote their unique accomplishment. (Those who do
not complete each test successfully are, of course, welcome to return for
refresher training and another chance at certification when the program is
repeated later in our calendar.)
The benefits of being an FELTG Certified Practitioner are many. For example,
being certified plus three dollars will get you a nice cup of coffee just about
anywhere in our great country. Plus, if you fly on FELTG’s private jet, you get
priority boarding privileges and free checked baggage.
OK, seriously. As an FELTG Certified Practitioner you get to say to the world
that you have been trained in your craft by the best and most experienced
attorneys and HR specialists in the country when it comes to federal
employment law. If you’re telling that to someone familiar with our programs,
your status will rise in their eyes (and if they sit across the table from you in a
hearing, fear will fill their dark hearts). If they are not familiar with our work,
well, why are you wasting your time talking with someone like that?
Think of it this way. You apply for a promotion. Your main competition is some
dude from another agency who has qualifications about equal to yours, but
he is not FELTG certified, and you are. And the selecting official has been to
our programs and knows about the quality of work that FELTG produces. So
who do you think is going to get the job; you, the FELTG Certified Practitioner,
or someone who has not taken the course, survived the rigorous testing
process, and received the Order of the Shark, the coveted FELTG lapel pen?
Yes, we think you’ll be able to answer that question. Enjoy that promotion.
As a Certified Practitioner, FELTG will retain your name and credentials in
our records in perpetuity. If you approve, we will notify anyone who asks
as to the topics and procedures you have been trained in, that you were
tested throughout the training, and that you passed the exams that were
administered. In other words, we will stand behind you in your claim of
subject-matter expertise, for as long as your certification is active (a minimum
of three years).
We are proud of what we do here at FELTG, and we are delighted that many
of you participate in our programs so that you can do a better job of serving
our country. If we can be of assistance to you by documenting your level of
professional expertise with our Certified Practitioner program, we are both
humbled and honored.
NEW!
Leave & Attendance
Management
and Performance
Management
May 5-8, 2015
This program will give participants the knowledge
they need to advise managers on individual cases
related to leave and attendance issues, and to
design and manage effective performance standards
and plans. In addition to a focus on relevant laws,
regulations, policies, and legal cases, the course will
include workshop-type exercises to give the student
practical takeaways they won’t forget.
Instructor: Barbara Haga
TUESDAY Leave and Attendance
Management I: Legal and regulatory
requirements; general leave principles;
intersection of leave and labor contracts;
annual leave; sick leave; FMLA coverage,
entitlements, and eligibility; serious
health conditions.
WEDNESDAY Leave and Attendance
Management II: FMLA continued:
certification requirements, intermittent
FMLA, substitution of paid leave; leave
transfer; court leave; military leave;
other types of leave; LWOP and AWOL;
medical issues. [For those needing intermediate
to advanced instruction in handling leave abuse
situations, including, discipline, removal, and related
appeals, be sure to check out our companion offering
Absence & Medical Issues Week, September 28 October 2, 2015.]
THURSDAY Performance Management
I: Appraisal processes: legal
requirements for appraisal systems:
coverage, appraisal periods, establishing
plans and monitoring performance,
assigning summary ratings; system
design: critical and non-critical
elements, rating patterns, performance
recognition; performance plans: defining
critical elements, setting standards and
measuring results.
FRIDAY Performance Management
II: Performance plans continued:
linking individual and organizational
performance; reviewing plans; pay and
RIF; Within-Grade Increases; reasonable
accommodation related to performance.
[For those needing intermediate to advanced
instruction in unacceptable performance situations,
including, demotion, removal, and related appeals, be
sure to check out our companion offering MSPB Law
Week, March 2 - 6, 2015 and September 14 - 18, 2015.]
Legal Writing Week
MSPB Law Week
December 7-11, 2015 (San Francisco)
March 2-6, 2015 (Washington, DC)
September 14-18, 2015 (Washington, DC)
This writing-based workshop program covers five
days of essential information focused specifically
on legal writing in federal sector employment law
cases. It begins with the fundamentals of good
legal writing and then builds on those basics with
sessions targeted to organization, persuasive
factual narratives, writing for your audience and
drafting specific documents for the MSPB and
EEOC. Analysis and evaluation of writing exercises
allows students to receive immediate feedback.
Instructors: Ernest Hadley, Deborah
Hopkins
MONDAY Legal Writing I: The Basics:
Legal writing and citation formats;
argumentative approaches; writing from
the reader’s perspective; organizational
logic; word choice and structure; legal
terms. Workshops: Spin Words; Speed
Ball Exercise; Spin an Issue.
TUESDAY Legal Writing II: Writing
for Your Audience: Defining and
distinguishing claims, defenses
and issues; the factual narrative;
identification of material facts;
persuasion. Workshops: Defining
Claims; Writing the Agency Factual
Statement; Writing the Employee
Factual Statement.
WEDNESDAY Legal Writing III:
Writing for Your Audience (cont.):
Educating the reader; analyzing the
evidence; organizing the arguments;
distinguishing cases. Workshops:
Stating the Rule; Writing the Analysis.
THURSDAY Legal Writing IV: Writing
for the MSPB and EEOC: Charges and
penalties; drafting proposed discipline
for MSPB, drafting final agency decisions
for EEOC. Workshops: Writing a Notice
of Proposed Discipline; Writing a Final
Agency Decision.
FRIDAY Legal Writing V: Writing for
the MSPB and EEOC (cont.): Motion
practice and summary judgment; MSPB
petitions for review; EEOC appeals;
deconstruction and critique of final
agency decisions; editing your work.
Workshop: Deconstruction of a Final
Agency Decision.
The critiques of writing exercises and
“theprinciples
opportunity to try out the application of
were very helpful.
”
Legal Writing Week 2014 attendee
MSPB Law Week covers the basics of charges,
penalties and performance cases, with special
emphasis on prohibited personnel practices and
defending against affirmative defenses. Join top
MSPB practitioners and topic authors, and learn
the law, strategies, and techniques from their
many years of combined experience.
Instructors: William Wiley, Ernest Hadley
MONDAY Adverse Actions: Identifying
disciplinary actions; off-duty misconduct;
options to formal discipline (avoiding
MSPB); appeal rights; the Five Elements
of discipline; justifying differential
treatment.
TUESDAY 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; the inclusion of lesserincluded offenses; attractive options
to difficult charges; common charging
mistakes; proving the difficult “intent”
element; a step-by-step approach to
charge drafting.
WEDNESDAY Penalties: MSPB and
Federal Circuit lead cases in penalty
determination; getting “intent”
penalties off of “non-intent” charges;
charging down and proving up; how
the maximum penalty is established;
an update of recent Board and court
decisions; placing the emphasis on
notice; penalty mitigation changes;
MSPB regulations.
THURSDAY Unacceptable
Performance: Performance actions
in perspective; drafting a defensible
performance standard; implementing
a PIP; overcoming the PIP rollercoaster;
accommodating disability-related poor
performance; converting an unacceptable
performance problem into a Part 752
disciplinary action; Part 432 removals.
FRIDAY Handling Affirmative Defenses:
Claims of malfeasance against
management; burdens of proof; harmful
error allegations; whistleblower reprisal;
reprisal for union activity; claims of
Title VII and civil rights discrimination;
compensatory damages; prosecution of
management officials by OSC.
MSPB & EEOC Hearing
Practices Week
Workplace
Investigations Week
November 2-6, 2015 (Washington, DC)
April 6-10, 2015 (Washington, DC)
October 19-23, 2015 (Washington, DC)
Join the field’s preeminent litigators in a
workshop-based seminar focused on practicing
effectively and successfully in administrative
hearings before the MSPB, EEOC, FLRA, and in
arbitration. You’ll prepare a case with a team that
represents either the agency or the employee,
then you’ll try the case before an Administrative
Judge and receive a critique along with the
decision.
Full week registrations only.
Registration is $2750*.
Instructors: William Wiley, Ernest Hadley,
Deborah Hopkins
MONDAY Developing Your Case: Case
theory development (MSPB & EEOC);
introduction to administrative hearings
and arbitrations; hearing organization.
Workshops: Case Theory Development;
What to Prove
TUESDAY Preparing Your Case:
Preparing witnesses for direct and
cross-examination; dealing with the
record and objections; opening and
closing arguments; conducting an
effective direct examination. Workshops:
Admitting Evidence and Making
Objections; Direct Examination
WEDNESDAY Preparing for Hearing:
Conducting an effective crossexamination; setting the table at the
prehearing conference. Workshop:
Cross-Examination
THURSDAY Trying Your Case: Your case
goes before an MSPB Administrative
Judge. Direct and cross examination of
witnesses; closing arguments; critiques
from the Administrative Judge and FELTG
instructors.
FRIDAY Rounding Out Your Advocacy
Skills: Deposition practice; filing
a petition for review. Workshops:
Deconstructing and Learning from
the Process; Taking and Defending
Depositions.
*Space is strictly limited so register early.
This program was a perfect way to
“prepare
for a real-life hearing. It is by
far the best training event I have ever
attended.
”
Hearing Practices Week 2014 attendee
From employee misconduct to EEO investigations,
be sure you know the proper steps to take
when conducting every type of employment
investigation. Finish out the week with detailed
information on writing effective reports.
Instructors: William Wiley, Ernest Hadley,
Deborah Hopkins, Michelle McGrath
MONDAY Administrative
Investigations, Part I: Criminal v. tort
activity in the federal workplace;
testifying at hearing; evidence needed
to discipline; evidence needed to prove
a penalty selection; evidence related
to discrimination claims; unacceptableperformance based investigations.
TUESDAY Administrative Investigations,
Part II: Role of the Investigator;
confidentiality; determining the
scope of the investigation; developing
the investigation plan; right to
representation; employee legal rights;
Privacy Act considerations.
WEDNESDAY Administrative
Investigations, Part III: Interim actions;
investigative interview techniques:
determining who to interview, how to
interview, where to interview; official
time; documentary evidence; credibility
factors; evidentiary issues.
THURSDAY EEO Investigations: EEO
jurisdiction; defining EEO claims;
developing an investigatory plan;
documenting sanctionable conduct;
evidentiary principles; interview
techniques; official time.
FRIDAY Writing Investigative Reports:
Organizing for the report; establishing
the chronology; report writing style;
report writing conventions; report
organization.
ATTENTION SUPERVISORS!
Supervisory
HR Skills Week
July 13-17, 2015 (Washington, DC)
This specialized seminar is the result of
requests from agencies like yours. This week
covers topics including employee performance
and conduct, FMLA and other leave scenarios,
EEO and disability discrimination, management
and leadership skills, and supervising unionized
employees. Participants who attend Monday and
Thursday will also receive a special certificate
for meeting OPM’s mandatory 5 CFR 412.202(b)
training requirement for supervisors.
Instructors: William Wiley, Ernest Hadley,
Deborah Hopkins, Barbara Haga
MONDAY Holding Employees
Accountable for Performance
and Conduct: Fundamentals of
disciplinary actions and unacceptable
performance actions; establishing
rules of conduct; proving misconduct;
selecting a defensible penalty;
providing due process via agency
discipline procedures; writing
valid performance standards;
implementing a Performance
Improvement Plan; removal for
unacceptable performance in 31 days.
TUESDAY Effectively Managing
Employee Leave Issues: Annual leave;
sick leave; Leave Without Pay; FMLA;
medical certification requirements;
substitution of paid leave; leave
stacking.
WEDNESDAY The Manager’s Role in
EEO: Preventing sexual harassment;
attendance, leave and reasonable
accommodation under the ADA;
what to do if you’re a Responding
Management Official in a complaint.
THURSDAY Essential Management
Skills for Federal Supervisors:
Effective workplace communication;
identifying your leadership style;
managing a multigenerational
workforce; handling difficult
employees; managing workplace
conflict; mentorship; managing a
mobile workforce.
FRIDAY Supervising in a Unionized
Environment: What every supervisor
should know about federal labor
unions; collective bargaining
agreements; official time; LR
meetings; an overview of the Federal
Service Labor-Management Relations
Statute; fundamental employee,
union, and management rights; unfair
labor practices; controlling official
time; handling information requests.
Webinars
FELTG webinars have been a resounding
success since early 2012. Our topics
cover a range of EEOC, MSPB and FLRA
issues to practitioners, plus subject
matter geared specifically to federal
supervisors.
FELTG’s experienced instructors –
the same experts who present our
open enrollment and onsite training
sessions – are committed to offering
direction and guidance on the current,
relevant issues most important to
federal employment law practitioners
and supervisors. Join us from the
convenience of your office, conference
room or training center, all for one
affordable, per-site fee. Check out our
website for a list of upcoming events.
You can also schedule a customized
webinar or audio conference for your
agency, presenting a focused topic
you need covered, on a day and time
convenient to you. Email FELTG’s
Executive Director Deborah Hopkins at
[email protected], or call 415-3082981, for more information.
Instructors
William Wiley is a former Chief Counsel to the
Chairman of MSPB and Chief of Staff to the General
Counsel of FLRA, and also represents agencies. He is
an author and lecturer with 35 years of employment
law experience.
DEBORAH HOPKINS has over 11 years’ experience
instructing courses on conflict management,
leadership, writing, health and safety, supervisory and
communication skills and legal research techniques.
ERNEST HADLEY has been a premiere practitioner in
the area of federal sector discrimination law for over
25 years, writing extensively, and representing both
employees and agencies.
Barbara Haga is the President of Federal HR Services,
Inc., and has provided HR training, consulting, and
functional services to federal agencies for over 20
years, and is an accomplished author.
GARY GILBERT is a former Chief Administrative Judge
for the EEOC. He is the author of the often-referenced
“Compensatory Damages and Other Remedies in
Federal Sector Employment Discrimination Cases.”
Deryn Sumner is Associate Counsel at The Law Offices
of Gary M. Gilbert & Associates, P.C., and works with
FELTG to train Agency EEO, Employee Relations and
Human Resources personnel.
Michelle McGrath has worked in employment
litigation, and has conducted neutral investigations of
employee complaints involving all types of harassment
and discrimination allegations, for over 20 years.
Susan D. McCluskey is a federal labor law attorney
with over 35 years of experience working with and
within the FLRA.
2015 Registration
Special Events
Supervisor Training
Webinars
Join FELTG in 2015 for the most
comprehensive supervisory training event
available anywhere Supervising Federal
Employees: The Skills You’ll Need to
Succeed, a ten-part webinar training series
targeted specifically to the issues and
challenges faced by managers in agencies
across the country, and around the world.
These interactive, 60-minute sessions will
expand upon legal principles to provide
federal managers with the necessary tools
and best practices they need to manage
the agency workplace effectively and
efficiently.
April 14: Holding Employees Accountable
for Performance and Conduct: The
Foundation
April 28: The Differences Between
Performance and Conduct
May 12: Protect Yourself: What You Should
Know About Discipline
May 26: Personnel Improvement Plans,
Part I
June 9: Personnel Improvement Plans,
Part II
June 23: Leading and Mentoring a
Multigenerational Workforce
July 7: Writing Effective Performance
Plans
July 21: Tackling Leave Issues
August 4: Reasonable Accommodation in
60 Minutes
August 18: What You Should Know about
EEO
Join us for one session, or register for
them all. Individual sessions are $200 per
site. Or, register for the series by April
10, for only $1870! Substitutions may be
accepted with reasonable notice to FELTG.
Check out our website
for details on all the exciting
things we have planned
for 2015.
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Registration Information
Schedule: All courses begin at 8:00 am
with registration sign-in and
refreshments. Training begins at 8:30
and adjourns daily at 4:00 pm. Lunch
break for one hour at noon.
TUITION
All five days = $1950 (best value)
Four days = $1570 Three days = $1220
Two days = $850 One day = $470
Hearing Practices Week = $2750
EIN: 47-2244577 DUNS: 079673403
No cancellations after COB 30 days prior
to start of training week. Transfers to
another course after the cancellation date
may be subject to a $25 administrative
fee. Substitutions may be accepted with
reasonable notice to FELTG.
FELTG reserves the right to substitute
program instructors as necessary.
Location: FELTG’s DC seminars are held
at the International Student House,
Ella Burling Hall, 1825 R Street NW,
Washington, DC, in the Dupont Circle
area. The venue is a former private
mansion and the training facility is
located on the second floor, and is
accessible. Please call FELTG at least
two weeks in advance of the seminar
you plan to attend if alternative special
accommodations are necessary.
FELTG’s San Francisco courses are held at
the Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel, 609
Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, right off
Union Square. Visit our website at www.
feltg.com for full details.
DC Lodging: Suggested accommodations
are listed on our website.
Federal Employment Law Training
Group
Contact our Registrar
844.at.FELTG (283.3584)
[email protected]
HOW TO REGISTER:
Registration forms for all FELTG courses
are available at www.feltg.com/
Registration_Forms.html For registration to be invoiced, fax
approved SF-182 Training Form
with
complete billing instructions and
registration form to 206.350.2890.
Or, phone in registrations with credit
card info to 844.at.FELTG (283.3584).
Confirmation is by email only. You may
not be admitted to seminars without
confirmation notice.
Capacity is Limited. Late registrations
and walk-ins are subject to space
availability.
ONSITE SEMINARS AND TRAININGS
Did you know FELTG offers onsite training?
Our experienced instructors will come to
your agency or union and train you on your
choice of employment law topics. Fill the
room with as many participants as you like.
Tell us what you want us to teach, and we
will put together an agenda to meet your
specifications. From a half-day executive
briefing to a full week of lectures and
workshops, we’ll customize the training
that’s right for you, when it suits your
schedule – all for one affordable price.
Our experts will package and present
material for every level of need in all the
complex areas of federal employment and
labor law. FELTG instructors have presented
sessions for OPM, EEOC, NPS, SSA, DHS,
DOE, USDA, DOD, AFGE, NTEU and many
other forward-looking agencies and labor
unions on topics including:
· Absence & Medical Issues
· EEO Counselor & Investigator Training
· Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
· Holding Employees Accountable for Performance & Conduct
· MSPB Charges & Penalties
· Reports of Investigation & Final Agency Decisions
· Supervising in a Unionized Environment
· And much more!
Call 415.308.2981 or email [email protected] for
more details.
FELTG’s 2015 Course Catalogue
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Federal Employment Law
Training Group
PO Box 73068
Washington, DC 20056
Here’s what participants say about our programs:
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Instructors were generous with tips
and answering questions, sharing their
knowledge and insights.
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FELTG’s
2015 Season
FELTG continues to bring you
the highest quality federal
sector employment law training
available anywhere.
Register early. Space is limited.
The presentation and explanation of
the material was excellent. Presenters
engaged the audience by responding
to all questions and ensuring their
responses were understood.
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I really enjoyed the style of the FELTG
training. It was a comfortable, fruitful and
fun way to learn!
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Most FELTG open enrollment
programs are pre-approved for
CLE credit by the Virginia and
California state bars. FELTG is also
an HRCI Approved Provider.
speakers were knowledgeable,
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presented even complex information
clearly and efficiently.
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This is the best training program
“ town! It was very helpful and I will
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recommend it to colleagues inside and
outside my agency.
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“the day! Thank you for devoting many
Excellent presentations throughout
years to the education efforts in the
employment law field!
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The use of this seal is not an
endorsement by HR Certification
Institute of the quality of the
program. It means that this program
has met HR Certification Institute’s
criteria to be pre-approved for
recertification credit.