Stay informed with the latest court cases affecting federal employees and retirees, including major federal employment law decisions, appeals, and rulings from MSPB, FLRA, EEOC, and federal courts. This category covers workplace rights, disciplinary actions, due process cases, retirement‑related rulings, TSP‑related litigation, and significant legal decisions impacting federal agencies and the federal workforce. Find clear summaries and analysis of the court outcomes shaping federal employment protections, benefits, and workplace policies.
Yet another court decision underscores the need to be careful and specific when working out divorce settlements where federal retirement and survivor’s annuities are involved in the property being divided.
A fired Internal Revenue Service employee was not able to convince the appeals court that she was entitled to appointed legal counsel either before the Board or before the court in challenging her removal and that failing to appoint an attorney for her was abuse of discretion.
It’s bad enough to misuse the government vehicle, but also trying to hide it from the agency got this Army employee fired.
The Department of Homeland Security cut it perilously close when it decided to terminate a probationary employee a few hours before his probation expired.
Here is another removal case stemming from hiding a former firing on a government application form.
Because of the Douglas Factors, federal employees that damage an agency’s reputation can face demotion or removal.
Are constitutional tort suits against individual federal employees possible and lead to individual liability?
Apparently finding a legal issue they could almost completely agree on, the Supreme Court has ruled in the case of a current and former spouse warring over the proceeds of a deceased fed’s FEGLIA (Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1954). The case has important implications for federal employees naming beneficiaries.
A former Air Force employee signed a settlement agreement that gave him a clean record and a cool $25,000 in cash to wipe out his removal appeal. He took the agreement and the cash then took his case to court arguing the agreement had been coerced and he should not have been fired. His arguments did not generate any sympathy with the court.
Reassignment from a supervisory to a non-supervisory position-with no reduction in grade or pay-does not add up to an adverse action subject to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
