Results for Federal Employee Issues

We routinely receive calls from employers who want to terminate an employee (or have been sued for doing so) but do not have a good paper trail to...

Mario Pecoraro, CEO from Alliance Worldwide Investigative Group, Inc. and Peter Roueche from Eastman Chemical Company spoke at the RIMS 2017 annual conference about workplace violence and patterns of behavior a worker might exhibit before a tragedy happens
Warning signs of people at risk include: typical behaviors, trends and profiles of aggressors, and mitigation factors leading to a breakdown with preventative measures
Behaviors can either be…

Workers' compensation programs are governed by a number of entities at both the federal and state level. Although the overall ... Workers' Compensation

February 2, 2019 – For 35 days, more than 35,000 USDA Forest Service employees throughout the country were furloughed from their jobs, told not to return to work and would not get paid until the government shutdown ended. Included in this shutdown were more than 300 federal employees from the Tahoe National Forest
After the longest-ever government shutdown in U.S. history, many shared experiences of how…

Washington - On February 16, 2017, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) and Congressman Don Beyer (D | Virginia) released the following resource guide for federal employees who wish to break the Administration’s communications blackout on federal agencies. The guide explains how to safely and responsibly share information, and encourages employees to "Know Your Rights" and "Know Your Options." In the "Know Your…

If you have been charged with a federal offense, read this article about how the federal court system operates and the importance of hiring the right attorney!

Companies that self-collect ESI may want to rethink that strategy.

Learn strategies to beat a federal offense in California from our Los Angeles criminal defense lawyers. Call our law firm for free consultation,

The city government in Everett, Washington, located about 30 miles north of Seattle, has complained for years that female employees of the Hillbilly Hotties coffee chain were serving drinks while wearing bikinis and other forms of revealing clothing.

The Federal Tort Claims Act allows government entities to be sued for damages caused by negligence on the part of a government employee or agency

Information on food pantries, banks, utility bills, more

Washington, DC, Dec. 20, 2018 — The federal government’s leading expert on the human health impacts of climate change is the target of a wide-ranging reprisal campaign which began days after the Trump inauguration. He has been gagged, reassigned, had his program dismantled, and has been subjected to a welter of seemingly farcical charges, as detailed in documents posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility…

If you or a loved one are a victim of human trafficking, reach out to McGowan, Hood & Felder, LLC in South Carolina for legal help now, or text “HELP” to 233733.

My latest "Ambrogi on Tech" column for the ABA Journal looks at PacerPro, a better way to search the federal courts' Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Started by a lawyer ...

What elements are used to successfully settle a federal court case? We sat down with four retired U.S. District Court judges from our JAMS Washington,...

Protecting the rights of criminal defendants is one of the most important jobs of criminal defense lawyers. Even though a person has been charged or convicted of breaking the law, they still have the same basic, fundamental entitlements as every other citizen in the United States. Considering this, it is

A federal judge who ruled the Selective Service System's men-only registration unconstitutional late Friday rejected the reasoning of a 1981 Supreme Court decision, opting for the recent women's rights rationale of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the contemporary court.

Last week, in a denial of a motion to dismiss, a Massachusetts district court ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (the “CEA”) and that therefor