A federal court has thrown out a long line of MSPB decisions that held the cancellation of a vacancy announcement is not a personnal action. The decision means a former federal employee gets to have his case heard by the MSPB.
An arbitrator upheld the firing of a Customs patrol agent. But a federal court sends the case back to the arbitrator based on its conclusion that the agency did not prove that the employee had a “loss of qualifications.”
This FBI office was involved in its own form of internal warfare with one employee allegedly threatening to reveal the identify of an FBI colleague to a “target organization” of the FBI’s counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence unit.
A court of appeals finds that OPM had an obligation to to check out the facts of a case that impact the election of a survivor annuity. The case is therefore sent back to the Board for a new decision based on the finding of the court.
Here is a unique way to seek a significant promotion in government service. A federal employee submitted letters from her doctor indicating she could not perform the duties of a lower level job. She argued the agency should therefore give her a promotion to a higher level position.
A federal employee got reinstated after having signed a last chance agreement despite drinking while wearing the agency’s uniform. The court concluded that the VFW hall was not “public place.”
An administrative judge from the EEOC may be an expert on EEO cases but that does not carry over into the expertise of the Merit Systems Protection Board. When an EEOC administative judge told a federal employee he could appeal to the Board, the MSPB and the courts did not hesitate to correct his “misplaced” advice.
How many ways can a federal employee get in trouble in one day? This agent had a very bad day and lost his job.
A federal employee was found guilty of falsifying his travel vouchers filed with the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. That led to six months in prison and a fine. But the agency’s attempt to remove him ran into a roadblock as the removal letter was “materiallly flawed.”
A former federal employee hired an attorney for two cases. Unfortunately for the former fed, the attorney did not make any arguments on the case the court had the authority to review.
