AS A FEDERAL OR POSTAL EMPLOYEE, your employment situation is quite different from that of people employed in the private sector. A complex arrangement of laws—supposedly intended to ensure your protection—frequently has the effect of leaving you with fewer rights and protections than the average private sector employee has. To enable you to fight your way through the maze of laws designed to protect Uncle Sam, you need the assistance of a qualified, experienced lawyer. "On the complainant's side, there is only a small corps of lawyers who specialize in federal personnel law. Many complainants must rely on lawyers who specialize in private sector employment law where procedures are much different, or on general practitioners with virtually no employment law experience at all. Almost no one, lawyer or lay-representative, regardless of whether he represents complainants or agencies, specializes solely in EEO cases. Federal personnel law is a complex subject that can, and does, involve representation before the EEOC, the MSPB, arbitrators under collective bargaining agreements, the Federal Labor Relations Authority and in the federal court system. The result is that few representatives can bring together a combination of specialize education, skill and experience in EEOC litigation." We represent Federal and Postal employees in litigation before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). We assist you with such issues as: * Resolving Reduction in Force issues The Law Office of William H. Brawner also represents federal and postal employees before the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) with regards to claims for federal workers' compensation benefits. We handle all aspects of OWCP claims from initial filing to ultimate appeals to the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB). |
Unfortunately, as any federal or postal worker who has been looking for an attorney to take on a work-related problem knows, extremely few law firms will even consider taking on a federal personnel case. As author Ernest Hadley comments:
