unequal treatment of disabled employees in the government workplace

Disability Retirement from Federal Service: By what right?

Posted onJuly 11, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is a question often posed in the dead of night by those who would undermine an assertion based upon an instinctive sense of fairness, but perhaps not able to be articulated in comprehensible form. By what right do you enter these premises? By what right do you express that opinion? By what right do you think you can do that? It is, as with many questions, one that has a sadly contextual background of a negative past – for, whenever a person, a populace or a segment of a greater society begins to assert a “right”, […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: The way we live

Posted onFebruary 25, 2017December 19, 2020AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Did we ever have a voice in it? Was there a consensus of voices, a roll call of votes cast, or a participatory democracy in action that allowed for a resolution that resulted in it? Or, as in authoritarian countries (and some would include ours in that category), was there a “Master Planner” who decided that this way we live was the best for all, with likely a minority of few living somewhat separately, and of course we can all be given some breadcrumbs of hope, as in, “If you work hard enough, you too can achieve this…” […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Medical Retirement: Seasonal Rhythms

Posted onJuly 1, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

We are completely disconnected from the imposition of nature’s imperatives; through artificial means, we extend the light of day in the name of productivity, and prevent and shut it out for the sake of lengthier restorative sleep; we defy slumber and seasons of cocoon-like hibernation with unnatural heat, and resist the middle of the day where scorching temperatures and required siestas in other countries are ignored and scoffed at. […] Read More …

Federal Employees Disability Retirement System: The Stradivarius

Posted onMarch 12, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It has come to represent a superlative; a standard of excellence which cannot be exceeded, and considered as the penultimate achievement beyond which only angels and heavenly bodies can ascend to, or hope to touch like the light mist of dawn slowly rising to the tips of the alps wrapped in the greenery of nature’s untouchable paradigm. […] Read More …