Fight For Your Rights: A Federal Employee's guide to the EEO Process - Softcover

Michael J. Snider; Morris E. Fischer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972313613 ISBN 13: 9780972313612

Publisher: Michael J. Snider, 2006

Synopsis

Every Federal Employee needs to be at least familiar with the EEO process and how discrimination claims are handled, step by step. This book goes beyond that. Chapter by chapter, it outlines in detail each step of the process, from initial filing with the EEO Counselor through a hearing, federal court and appeals. It also provides samples of completed forms that enables you to carry this process through in a competent manner. Then you get numerous insights into actually winning your case. Rather than talk about the law in stupefying detail, this book helps you "Fight For Your Rights." The Author, Michael J. Snider, is a discrimination attorney practicing federal employment law nationwide. His phone number says it all: 1-800-DISCRIMINATION.

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About the Author

The Author, Michael J. Snider, is a discrimination attorney practicing federal employment law nationwide. His phone number says it all: 1-800-DISCRIMINATION. Mr. Snider was born in Texas and grew up in Hebron, Connecticut. He attended the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, with minors in Business and Political Science. Mr. Snider graduated with Honors from the University of Maryland School of Law at Baltimore in 1996. He was honored by earning the Corpus Juris Secundum award for outstanding work and the highest available grade in Civil Procedure. During law school, he served an Asper Fellowship as a law clerk to Hon. Paul Alpert, who was a sitting Judge on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Mr. Snider also clerked for Joseph Ostad, a solo practitioner in Baltimore, Maryland practicing corporate law, intellectual property and personal injury, and worked on contracts for a major client of that firm, the Psychic Friends Network. Mr. Snider was admitted to practice before all Maryland State courts in December 1996, and was admitted to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in March 1997. He was admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1998, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1998, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 2003 and the United States Supreme Court in 2001. He was specially admitted to the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in 1998. After graduation from law school, Mr. Snider worked on a class action RICO case against Honda (In re American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Dealerships Relations Litigation (MDL 1069) that resulted in a $330 million settlement on behalf of more than 1400 class action and direct action plaintiffs). Beginning in 1997, Mr. Snider served as an Attorney Advisor in the Litigation Division of the United States Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, Maryland for 1 ½ years. He defended the Commissioner of Social Security in United States District Court and US Courts of Appeal around the country. Mr. Snider flew to Portland, Oregon and argued an attorney fee hourly rate case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in which his client prevailed. In 1999, Mr. Snider was appointed General Counsel of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), AFL-CIO, Local 1923 – the largest federal government Union Local in the country, and served in that position for 5 ½ years. During that time, he litigated dozens of Arbitrations, EEO and MSPB hearings and appeals, earning millions of dollars for bargaining unit employees at the Social Security Administration (SSA), Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA – HHS), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense (DoD) and many other Agencies. Mr. Snider assisted the Local in forming and administering its Legal Representation Fund, into which was deposited over $1 million in attorney fees for Mr. Snider’s work. Mr. Snider formed Snider Law Offices in 1996, was a partner in the Law Offices of Snider & Fischer, LLC from 2002 to 2005, and formed the Law Offices of Snider & Associates in July 2005. Mr. Snider has a number of federal and private Union clients, including AFGE Council 222 (HUD), AFGE Council 252 (Dept. of Education), AFGE Local 1770 (Army - Ft. Bragg, NC), AFGE Local 2419 (NIH), AFGE Local 3614 (EEOC), AFGE Local 32 (OPM), AFGE Local 3729 (Army Corps of Engineers), NFFE Local 1998 (Dept. of State, Passport Agency), and NFFE Locals 1705 and 1642 (GSA), as well as UGSOA Local 80 (US Marshals). Mr. Snider served a short term as General Counsel and a member of the Board of Directors for the Federally Employed Women’s Legal and Education Fund (FEW LEF). Mr. Snider is a proud member of the American Bar Association (ABA), Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA), Metropolitan Washington Employment

Edition details

• Publisher: Michael J. Snider
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972313613
• ISBN 13: 9780972313612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 219