The world of work has permanently changed, and enhanced workplace flexibilities can ease employee work-life balance and reduce their costs while making government employment attractive to a diverse workforce and enabling agency savings on real estate and other costs. The panel will explore the advantages of telework and remote work for employees and agencies, the challenges such flexible work arrangements raise, potential barriers to agency-union collaboration and ways to overcome those barriers.
Jennifer M. Cassell joined the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) as an Administrative Judge in 2020. Prior to coming to the MSPB, Jennifer worked as an Assistant Regional Counsel with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the General Counsel (OGC) for 11 years. Prior to joining OGC, she clerked for Judge Ann Williams on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Jennifer received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law. She previously taught advanced legal writing at her alma mater.
Gina N. Rozman joined the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) as an Administrative Judge in 2022. Prior to coming to the MSPB, Gina worked as an Assistant Regional Counsel with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the General Counsel (OGC) for 9 years. Before she joined OGC, Gina was a litigation associate at Winston & Strawn LLP. Gina received her J.D. and undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
Prior to joining the Merit Systems Protection Board in 2019, Mary Senoo spent nineteen years with the Social Security Administration’s Office of the General Counsel in Chicago. Her practice primarily focused on employment and labor law, including labor arbitrations, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission litigation and an occasional MSPB appeal. During her last nine years with SSA, Mary was responsible for the oversight of the agency’s EEOC litigation practice and labor arbitrations in the Chicago Region. Mary received her J.D. from Temple University in 1999 after having spent several years living and working in Japan.
Brooke Worden is an Administrative Judge with the Merit Systems Protection Board. Prior to joining the MSPB in 2022, Brooke worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor for 10 years, litigating various employment-related cases. After receiving her J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, she spent three years in federal clerkships before joining DOL as an honors attorney.
Opening Plenary: Return to the Office and Other Work/Life Balance Issues
Original Program Date: 09/19/2024 |
Recent Trends and Best Practices Litigating Before the EEOC, FLRA, and MSPB
Original Program Date: 09/19/2024 |