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What is a “management bias”? The author describes it as “a sympathy for those who must take the work forward in whatever direction the winds of political change push it.”
A rancher filed a lawsuit against employees of the Bureau of Land Management contending with numerous examples that he had suffered several years of harassment and intimidation because he would not grant an easement on his property. The court agreed with the government’s position that when the federal government is the “intended beneficiary of the allegedly extortionate acts,” then the act does not apply. The court concluded that the federal employees could not be sued individually for their campaign against the ownership rights of the rancher.
A federal employee who is subject to discipline will sometimes argue that the discipline was in retaliation for whistleblowing activity and that the discipline should be overturned. In this Air Force case, an employee admitted manipulating a process to steer contracts to one company but says the disciplinary action was retaliation. The court doesn’t buy it and leaves the 30-day suspension in place.
While some would argue that a former military member and federal employee should be held to a higher standard, this petitioner argued his status and poor health justified reducing his 33-month prison sentence. He took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court but, with the exception of Justice David Souter, he did not convince the court his case was meritorious.
Perhaps you will not need as much in retirement as you think. Here a few ways you will save money in retirement that you may not have considered–from a retired federal employees.
A federal attorney appealed his removal for a Hatch Act violation to the Court of Federal Appeals but his removal stands.
Multiple appeal procedures can muddle a case. In this instance, a federal employee who took leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for a terminally ill husband took the leave under false pretenses. But an EEOC ruling on the employee’s harassment case complicates the issue. A federal court send the case back to the MSPB to “resolve inconsistencies, if any.”
Your TSP funds did very well in May. Here are the results. What does the future hold? We should be at the end of a long bull market but some optimists see a very bright future for stocks.
The FLRA has labor relations experts. The NLRB also hasLR experts and has been around much longer deciding cases similar to those decided by the FLRA. The FLRA recently had the opportunity to tell the NLRB it was not taking the correct approach in making a unit determination for its own employees.
An employee of the Social Security Administration, described in a court’s opinion as “an energetic federal employee who has previously received awards for other suggestions that were adopted by the SSA…”, has gone to court to get more money. He received awards of $1300 and $24,350 and the agency recommended a 3rd award of more than $32,000 which was rejected by OPM. The court did not mind second-guessing OPM and SSA on their handling of the suggestion process but declined to make its own determination on award amounts.
