Managing Shareholder talks to WUSA9 about orders to reinstate federal employees

Earlier this week, President Trump signed an executive order converting approximately 10,000 career federal employee to Schedule Policy/Career (“Schedule P/C”).  As a result, these employees lost their due process protections and are now at-will employees.  Today, Bloomberg published an article, by Senior Reporter Ian Kullgren and Reporters Celine Castronuovo and Maren Fagan, about the impact […]

Alan Lescht and Associates, P.C., is pleased to welcome Senior Counsel Jenny Knopinski to the firm.  Jenny is a seasoned employment attorney with substantial experience in federal personnel law, administrative and civil litigation, and labor relations, including extensive practice before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The firm’s […]

Government Executive recently published an op-ed by Shareholders Nekeisha Campbell and Courtney Mickman.  The article, titled “Critics argue new federal workforce rules increase the risk of politicization, not accountability,” addresses potential ill effects of Schedule P/C.  Nekeisha and Courtney pose a crucial question: ” If policy-influencing career employees can remain in their roles without personal […]