This course is designed to guide HR practitioners and supervisors through the legally complicated world of crafting charges that will be used in formal disciplinary actions such as reprimands, suspensions, demotions and terminations. Over the years, the courts and the U.S. Merits System Protection Board have issued several landmark decisions that have made this aspect of taking discipline highly technical and the basis on which many agency actions have been mitigated or set aside. This course is designed to help the practitioner recognize the major charging pitfalls and to avoid penalty reversal.

Course Components

Chapter 1: The Federal Disciplinary Procedures
Chapter 2: Charge Formatting
Chapter 3: Common Labeled Charges
Chapter 4: Tricks of the Trade (Charges)

Learning Outcomes

After completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Describe and use each of the three basic charge formats.
• Explain why charge formatting is important and how it relates to the federal disciplinary process.
• List the elements for some of the more common charges and describe how to find the elements for other charges.
• Avoid the most common traps in charge construction.
• Explain the relationship between charges and specifications.
• Defend an agency's disciplinary action on appeal as it relates to the construction of the notice to the employee of the charged misconduct
• Complete chapter assessments with 100% mastery and the final assessment with 80% mastery.

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