This video training offers comprehensive instruction on representing an agency before the Office of Special Counsel. Mr. Sheth worked at OSC for 14 years before leaving to enter private practice. When he left, he was chief of OSC’s Investigation and Prosecution Division.

This training course includes Mr. Sheth’s lecture (.mp4 video sent on a DVD) and a workbook. The workbook contains reference materials, course notes—outline, cases, and a bibliography. The workbook is referenced throughout the video lecture, allowing users to pause the video and review the materials. The course provides instruction for individuals or groups on:

• General overview of PPPs, including new subsection, 2302(b)(13)
• Agencies’ obligation to cooperate with OSC (including citations to statute and regulations)
• Role of liaisons in OSC investigations
• Avoiding conflicts
• Conducting effective records searches, electronic and paper
• Ensuring cooperation between agency subcomponents
• Safeguarding sensitive materials
• Attorney-client and attorney work product privilege claims
• Representation at OSC interviews
• Dealing with reluctant witnesses
• Protecting witnesses’ rights
• Understanding OSC’s authority to seek protective orders
• Handling OSC cases with companion EEO matters
• Handling OSC cases involving union grievance on same subject matter
• Responding to requests for informal stays
• Addressing OSC attempts at early resolution
• Responding to requests for formal stays at MSPB
• Dealing with PPP reports
• Requesting results of OSC investigations, including source materials;
• Rebutting OSC’s investigative findings;
* optional 25% off - Use the drop down box to select options A Guide to the Whistleblower Protection Act and Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act
By: Fowler & Vitaro
Price: $225 Bundled Price: $168.75
Edition: 2nd/2016
Sku: 16WPA
Samples: Table of Contents---Text Sample
Written by subject matter experts Renn Fowler and Sam Vitaro, the Guide provides insights into the case law and procedure of whistleblower reprisal claims, describing in detail the roles of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Special Counsel. In depth discussion of the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, the Presidential Policy Directive Protecting Employees With Access to Classified Information (PPD-19), practice tips, summaries of the most significant cases impacting whistleblower law, and explanations of the procedural and legal differences between individual right of action and otherwise appealable actions round out this text.
• Working with OSC’s alternative dispute resolution process;
• Negotiating settlements;
• Working to effect systemic corrective actions;
• Understanding OSC’s intervention authority;
• OSC’s role following OPM audits and IG investigations;
• Understanding OSC’s original jurisdiction authority to file disciplinary action complaints;
• Handling employees facing disciplinary action;
• Reintegrating whistleblowers and retaliators into the workforce following case resolution;
• Avoiding negative publicity.

.mp4 video on DVD-ROM & workbook

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