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The Tampa Bay Times published an article, “Disabled veterans say St. Petersburg VA is discriminating with back-to-work policy,” about the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’...

Bloomberg Law quoted Shareholder Tamara Slater in an article titled: “Fired Immigration Judges Test Trump’s Executive Power in Suits.”  According to the article, by Reporter...

Alan Lescht and Associates, P.C., is pleased to welcome Associate Attorney Caroline Perris. Prior to joining the firm, Caroline served as a Law Clerk to...

In normal circumstances, your employer can charge you as absent without leave (AWOL) and discipline or fire you for not coming to work.  But what...

If you are a federal employee who received a bad performance review, you may feel lost with nowhere to go for help. Performance reviews are...

COBRA Protections and Eligibility – Part 1  What is Cobra?  In 1985, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (“COBRA”) gave employees and their families the...

Politico recently quoted Senior Counsel Katherine Lease in an article about proposed changes to federal employee performance assessments.  The article, titled “Trump admin advances performance...

Continuing in our exploration of employees’ First Amendment rights, we now turn to government contractors.  Can government contractors be fired for exercising free speech?  Of...