There are over 4,000 pages in the 2015 edition of A Guide to Merit Systems Protection Board Law and Practice. This lengthy reference guide provides practice guidance and analyses of relevant statutes, regulations and case law pertaining to the Merit System Protection...
Common OPM Denials At Harris Federal, we pride ourselves on our success rate. We have worked with federal employees for over a decade now, and our substantial tenure has allowed us to become adept to the various intricacies involved in the federal benefits system. We...
The OPM, or Office of Personnel Management, functions as an extension of each federal agency’s human resource department. They administer all of the federal employee retirement benefits, insurance programs, as well as assist each agency with their hiring processes....
If you're asking this question to yourself, friends, co-workers or your agency about representation…Good Question! Our answer is simple here. We believe that having representation for your claim from start to finish is the absolute best way to go about applying for...
Many employees of the United States Postal Service ask us whether or not the McConnell class action is something they need to get involved with. The class action appears to apply to any United States Postal Service employee who believes that he has been victimized by...
If you have been injured and you're left with lingering pain, it can eventually affect your mental health. Friends, family, and coworkers can start treating you differently if you suffer from chronic pain and it's affecting your daily life. Your condition can then be...
Working for the federal government may raise the likelihood of people making claims of injury caused by your actions. Consider a federal prison guard struggling with a prisoner, or a nurse in a veteran’s hospital trying to restrain a patient, or a postal worker...
The Employing Agency (EA) rightfully has an obligation to controvert the claim where there is a dispute as to the stated facts. They are to assign all claims to an individual that I will refer to in this article as the EA’s workers compensation specialist. That person...
In our American culture, particularly at the movies, we have traditionally honored those who speak up for the rights of others – particularly when they risk something or otherwise place their own future in peril for doing so. Some hesitant but potential heroes at work...
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