Scared Silent? Whistleblower Disclosures Drop
For the first time in four years, new whistleblower disclosures received by the Office of Special Counsel dropped.
Read summaries of court cases and decisions that impact federal employees and retirees.
For the first time in four years, new whistleblower disclosures received by the Office of Special Counsel dropped.
A twenty-year IRS agent was not able to convince the appeals court to overturn his removal for willfully underreporting his income on his federal tax returns.
The appeals court has tossed a Forest Service random drug testing policy that applied to Job Corps Center staff calling it a “solution in search of a problem.”
An appeals court has no problem with a federal employee volunteering for multiple years to serve on a local county court grand jury and requiring her agency employer to continue paying her full salary.
The appeals court has sent an appeal back to the arbitrator with instructions to consider evidence that came up after the personnel action was taken in reaching his final decision on appropriateness of the removal penalty.
The author says that the federal government continues to fumble with veteran’s preference matters as evidenced by some recent cases.
While not specifically involving the federal sector, a case involving an Atlantic City casino whose facts give rise to the court tossing it back to the NLRB to try again demonstrate that unions can in fact step over the line in organizing campaigns.
The Supreme Court has just issued a decision that heads off an end run around the Civil Service Reform Act’s employee appeals process. The court refuses to permit the district courts to supplant MSPB jurisdiction simply because the appeal is challenging the constitutionality of the law barring those who dodge selective service registration requirements from being employed by the federal government.
The US Court of Appeals disagrees with the lower court’s refusal to dismiss a Bivens lawsuit filed personally against a supervisor by a fired Library of Congress probationary employee. The case has been remanded with instructions to dismiss.
The MSPB is getting slower at delivering justice.