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Adverse Actions and Performance-Based Actions
Process, Law and Cases, Guidance, and Pitfalls
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By: Fowler & Vitaro
Price: $160.00
Edition: 2nd/2021
Sku: 21AAPA
ISBN: 978-1-941825-84-6; 1-941825-84-2
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Adverse Actions and Performance-Based Actions

Written by top practitioners, Adverse Actions and Performance-Based Actions is a thorough examination of the governing statutes, case law, and processes that agencies are obligated to follow in taking adverse and performance-based actions. Key terms and the implementation process of disciplinary action are clearly defined—including all steps and timelines to be adhered to. The authors share their insights through strategy hints, practice tips, key checklists, samples, and step-by-step advice on how to take effective adverse actions and performance-based actions. Each section is divided by individual actions and examines all substantive and procedural issues: what is covered, who is covered, what are the issues, and what must happen to prevail.

Advocates and agency HR professionals rely on Adverse Action and Performance-Based Actions for instruction on:

  • The Civil Service Reform Act: Where Did It Come From and What Does It Do—including legislative history and the basics of the Merit Systems Protection Board, Federal Labor Relations Authority, grievance-arbitration, Office of Personnel Management, Office of Special Counsel, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  • Adverse Actions: The Statutory and Regulatory Requirements—including covered actions and employees, proof requirements, and affirmative defenses
  • Adverse Actions: The Agency’s Administrative Process—including the investigation, charges, proposal, reply, and decision
  • Performance-Based Actions—including substantive employee rights and what the agency must prove, affirmative defenses and discussion of whether to use Chapter 43 or 75 in implementing performance-based actions
  • Performance-Based Actions: The Agency's Administrative Process—including the appraisal system, critical elements, communicating standards and elements, performance improvement periods, proposal, reply, and decision

Also included are a detailed table of contents and appendices with sample opportunity notices, proposal notice and decision notice.

Available as a softcover book and/or a PDF file with many useful features delivered on a CD-ROM, USB Flash Drive, or download. Hyperlinks allow the reader to move quickly between the Table of Contents and the corresponding portions of the text. Internal hyperlinks serve as a cross-reference feature within the text.



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