Packed with advice, this pamphlet offers expert guidance and practical tips to help your agency settle disputes at the informal level. Through real-life scenarios — backed by key case law — you discover strategies for developing a settlement agreement that accomplishes your agency's goals and withstands challenges.
Keys to Effective Federal Settlement Agreements provides insightful coverage on how to:
- Arrive at a workable settlement
- Determine the meaning of settlement terms
- Question the validity of a settlement
- Enforce the settlement
- Help the employee get a new start
- And more
Plus, you learn common clauses and terms to include in agreements including: back pay, sick leave and compensatory damages; benefits and retirement; and last chance and other abeyance agreements.
