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The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a significant decision that holds a federal employee’s claim of discrimination based on retaliation under Title VII does not have to demonstrate that the agency’s retaliation was in the form of a personnel action.
When does an employee have to serve a new probationary period? In this case, the court told the MSPB to take a closer look at the case of an air marshal who previously worked for the Immigration Service in a job with some similarities.
A federal employee charged with using abusive and obscene language signed a last chance agreement. When he didn’t show up for work, the agency reinstated the removal action and a court finds that he had waived his right of appeal.
Winning a case does not guarantee a result that the winner envisioned. This veteran won his case but didn’t get the job he was seeking.
A federal employee argued he did not understand the last chance settlement agreement and that the agency had acted in bad faith. But, in the absence of any proof, the court dismissed his case and he lost his federal job.
Federal employees overwhelmingly disagree with using the TSP’s G fund to help avoid a debt ceiling problem.
Changes to the procedures for allowing protests to a decision for contracting government work could lead to an interesting situation. An agency offical can protest his own agency’s decision.
Is litigation always part of change in the federal government? In this case, labor-management partnership may have delayed the inevitable but it did not stop it.
An employee who is frequently absent or late can get an employee fired and will be upheld on review. The Postal Service fared well in two new court decisions, one of which involved an employee who, apparently, had trouble getting to work on time.
This Air Force base fired an engineer for misrepresenting time spent on assigned work and failing to carry out assigned work.
